From 5d704fafcbe60a52dc0e741a28e1b5219ad24337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Johnston Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 13:49:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add an IMPLEMENTATION NOTES section to ldd.1. PR: 231926 Reviewed by: emaste MFC after: 1 month --- usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 b/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 index 5a06515ebd87..2a90d5ac537d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ldd/ldd.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 15, 2008 +.Dd October 23, 2018 .Dt LDD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ option displays a verbose listing of the dynamic linking headers encoded in the executable. See the source code and include files for the definitive meaning of all the fields. +.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES +.Nm +lists the dependencies of an executable by setting +.Xr rtld 1 +environment variables and running the executable in a child process. +If the executable is corrupt or invalid, +.Nm +may therefore fail without providing any diagnostic error messages. .Sh EXAMPLES The following is an example of a shell pipeline which uses the .Fl f @@ -67,6 +75,7 @@ which link against libc.so.6: .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ld 1 , .Xr nm 1 , +.Xr readelf 1 , .Xr rtld 1 .Sh HISTORY A