| commit ca52c56abf50b89a95dc2a4a5504c0d7d3862961 |
| Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> |
| Date: Thu Oct 8 15:33:00 2020 +0200 |
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| elf: Use the term "program interpreter" in the ld.so help message |
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| This is the term that the ELF standard itself uses. |
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| Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> |
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| diff --git a/elf/dl-usage.c b/elf/dl-usage.c |
| index f3c5ac76d37f9c03..8c24c13770500df9 100644 |
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| @@ -51,17 +51,17 @@ _dl_help (const char *argv0, struct dl_main_state *state) |
| { |
| _dl_printf ("\ |
| Usage: %s [OPTION]... EXECUTABLE-FILE [ARGS-FOR-PROGRAM...]\n\ |
| -You have invoked `ld.so', the helper program for shared library executables.\n\ |
| -This program usually lives in the file `/lib/ld.so', and special directives\n\ |
| -in executable files using ELF shared libraries tell the system's program\n\ |
| -loader to load the helper program from this file. This helper program loads\n\ |
| -the shared libraries needed by the program executable, prepares the program\n\ |
| -to run, and runs it. You may invoke this helper program directly from the\n\ |
| -command line to load and run an ELF executable file; this is like executing\n\ |
| -that file itself, but always uses this helper program from the file you\n\ |
| -specified, instead of the helper program file specified in the executable\n\ |
| -file you run. This is mostly of use for maintainers to test new versions\n\ |
| -of this helper program; chances are you did not intend to run this program.\n\ |
| +You have invoked 'ld.so', the program interpreter for dynamically-linked\n\ |
| +ELF programs. Usually, the program interpreter is invoked automatically\n\ |
| +when a dynamically-linked executable is started.\n\ |
| +\n\ |
| +You may invoke the program interpreter program directly from the command\n\ |
| +line to load and run an ELF executable file; this is like executing that\n\ |
| +file itself, but always uses the program interpreter you invoked,\n\ |
| +instead of the program interpreter specified in the executable file you\n\ |
| +run. Invoking the program interpreter directly provides access to\n\ |
| +additional diagnostics, and changing the dynamic linker behavior without\n\ |
| +setting environment variables (which would be inherited by subprocesses).\n\ |
| \n\ |
| --list list all dependencies and how they are resolved\n\ |
| --verify verify that given object really is a dynamically linked\n\ |