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-.TH ld.so 8 "14 March 1998"
-.SH NAME
-ld.so/ld-linux.so \- dynamic linker/loader
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-.B ld.so
-loads the shared libraries needed by a program, prepares the program
-to run, and then runs it.
-Unless explicitly specified via the
-.B \-static
-option to
-.B ld
-during compilation, all Linux programs are incomplete and require
-further linking at run time.
-.PP
-The necessary shared libraries needed by the program are searched for
-in the following order
-.IP o
-Using the environment variable
-.B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-.RB ( LD_AOUT_LIBRARY_PATH
-for a.out programs).
-Except if the executable is a setuid/setgid binary, in which case it
-is ignored.
-.IP o
-From the cache file
-.BR /etc/ld.so.cache
-which contains a compiled list of candidate libraries previously found
-in the augmented library path.
-.IP o
-In the default path
-.BR /usr/lib ,
-and then
-.BR /lib .
-.SH ENVIRONMENT
-.TP
-.B LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for
-ELF libraries at execution-time.
-Similar to the
-.B PATH
-environment variable.
-.TP
-.B LD_PRELOAD
-A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF shared
-libraries to be loaded before all others.
-This can be used to selectively override functions in other shared libraries.
-For setuid/setgid ELF binaries, only libraries in the standard search
-directories that are also setgid will be loaded.
-.TP
-.B LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
-If present, causes the program to list its dynamic library dependencies,
-as if run by ldd, instead of running normally.
-.TP
-.B LD_BIND_NOW
-If present, causes the dynamic linker to resolve all symbols at program
-startup instead of when they are first referenced.
-.TP
-.B LD_AOUT_LIBRARY_PATH
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to search for
-a.out libraries at execution-time.
-Similar to the
-.B PATH
-environment variable.
-.TP
-.B LD_AOUT_PRELOAD
-The name of an additional, user-specified, a.out shared library to be loaded
-after all others.
-This can be used to selectively override functions in other shared libraries.
-.TP
-.B LD_NOWARN
-Suppress warnings about a.out libraries with incompatible minor
-version numbers.
-.TP
-.B LD_KEEPDIR
-Don't ignore the directory in the names of a.out libraries to be loaded.
-Use of this option is strongly discouraged.
-.SH FILES
-.PD 0
-.TP 20
-.B /lib/ld.so
-a.out dynamic linker/loader
-.TP 20
-.B /lib/ld-linux.so.*
-ELF dynamic linker/loader
-.TP
-.B /etc/ld.so.cache
-File containing a compiled list of directories in which to search for
-libraries and an ordered list of candidate libraries.
-.TP
-.B /etc/ld.so.preload
-File containing a whitespace separated list of ELF shared libraries to
-be loaded before the program.
-libraries and an ordered list of candidate libraries.
-.TP
-.B lib*.so*
-shared libraries
-.PD
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ldd (1),
-.BR ldconfig (8).
-.SH BUGS
-.LP
-Currently
-.B ld.so
-has no means of unloading and searching for compatible or newer version of
-libraries.
-.PP
-.B ld.so
-functionality is only available for executables compiled using libc version
-4.4.3 or greater.
-.SH AUTHORS
-David Engel, Eric Youngdale, Peter MacDonald, Hongjiu Lu, Linus
-Torvalds, Lars Wirzenius and Mitch D'Souza (not necessarily in that order).