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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-04-28 14:07:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2015-04-28 14:07:17 +0000 |
| commit | 0b1a4f2b56b5c02c1ab1a7748d43f5b04deca9b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 9755aa006c7ba9b9e01007ddf40a991e8abe95f6 /libexec/ld.so/ldconfig | |
| parent | abfa0515975c974527426a7a72aa8931b2420976 (diff) | |
tidy up the prebind text; prompted by zhuk
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/ld.so/ldconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | libexec/ld.so/ldconfig/ldconfig.8 | 23 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/ld.so/ldconfig/ldconfig.8 b/libexec/ld.so/ldconfig/ldconfig.8 index 269ddebe70f..57080495d5a 100644 --- a/libexec/ld.so/ldconfig/ldconfig.8 +++ b/libexec/ld.so/ldconfig/ldconfig.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ldconfig.8,v 1.27 2013/07/10 06:43:38 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ldconfig.8,v 1.28 2015/04/28 14:07:16 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993,1995 Paul Kranenburg .\" All rights reserved. @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 10 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: April 28 2015 $ .Dt LDCONFIG 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -113,12 +113,11 @@ List the current contents of on the standard output. The hints file will not be modified. .It Fl S -Perform prelinking operations in a safe mode; always copies the binaries -when prelinking data is added to a file. +Prebind safely: always copies the binaries +when prebind information is added to a file. Use this to eliminate the possibility that .Dv ETXTBUSY -will occur when attempting to run a binary while prelinking -is running. +will occur when attempting to run a binary whilst prebinding. .It Fl s Do not scan the built-in system directory .Pq Dq /usr/lib @@ -132,17 +131,17 @@ This option cannot be used with Switch on verbose mode. .El .Sh PREBINDING -Prebinding is loosely based on an earlier concept called Prelinking, which -also accelerated -.Xr ld.so 1 -performance but simultaneously impaired address space randomization. -When prebinding information is added to libraries and programs using +When prebind information is added to libraries and programs using .Fl P , program startup can be significantly improved because .Xr ld.so 1 can initialize the shared library environment much faster. -Prebinding information adds a small amount of data to the end of each +Prebind information adds a small amount of data to the end of each specified program and associated shared libraries. +Prebinding is loosely based on an earlier concept called prelinking, which +also accelerated +.Xr ld.so 1 +performance but simultaneously impaired address space randomization. .Sh SECURITY Special care must be taken when loading shared libraries into the address space of |