>Number:         11961
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       ld.so(1) manual is misguiding about LD_PRELOAD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 14 20:15:01 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Masao Uebayashi
>Release:        -current (1.5Q)
>Organization:
SOUM Corporation
>Environment:
I'm running NetBSD/1.5Q on i386 machine.
I can't access the box so no "uname -a" here.

>Description:
LD_PRELOAD should be written in "space separated" instead "colon separated"
as described in the manual now.

I'm not fully sure about this, but Solaris's manual says "space separated".

>How-To-Repeat:
See the manual,
  $ man rtld
Try some example
  $ env LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libposix.so:/usr/lib/libtelnet.so" /usr/bin/id
  $ env LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libposix.so /usr/lib/libtelnet.so" /usr/bin/id

>Fix:
--- libexec/ld.aout_so/rtld.1.orig      Mon Jan 15 13:09:21 2001
+++ libexec/ld.aout_so/rtld.1   Mon Jan 15 13:13:30 2001
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 A colon separated list of directories, overriding the default search path
 for shared libraries.
 .It Ev LD_PRELOAD
-A colon separated list of shared object filenames to be loaded
+A space separated list of shared object filenames to be loaded
 .Em after
 the main program but
 .Em before

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