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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man3/dlfcn.3 | 22 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man3/dlfcn.3 b/share/man/man3/dlfcn.3 index 39047b975a5..77c96e07316 100644 --- a/share/man/man3/dlfcn.3 +++ b/share/man/man3/dlfcn.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: dlfcn.3,v 1.2 1995/10/01 18:47:23 pk Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: dlfcn.3,v 1.3 1996/01/09 19:43:34 pk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg .\" All rights reserved. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Fd #include <dlfcn.h> .Ft "void *" -.Fn dlopen "char *name" "int mode" +.Fn dlopen "char *path" "int mode" .Ft "int" .Fn dlclose "void *handle" .Ft "void *" @@ -57,11 +57,19 @@ They allow new shared objects to be loaded into the process' address space under program control. The .Fn dlopen -function takes a filename of the forms 'libname.so', 'libname.so.xx.xx' where -xx are the major and minor revisions, or 'pathname/filename' of a shared object -as the first argument. The shared object is mapped into the address space, -relocated and its external references are resolved in the same way as is done -with the implicitly loaded shared libraries at program startup. +function takes a name of a shared object as the first argument. The +shared object is mapped into the address space, relocated and its external +references are resolved in the same way as is done with the implicitly loaded +shared libraries at program startup. The argument can either be an absolute +pathname or it can be of the form +.Sm off +.Do Xo lib Ao name Ac .so +.Op .xx Op .yy Xc +.Dc +.Sm on +in which case the same library search rules apply that are used for +.Dq intrinsic +shared library searches. The second argument has currently no effect, but should be set to .Dv DL_LAZY for future compatibility. |