From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 2178) id 43698398B89E; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:54:01 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 43698398B89E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Florian Weimer To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc/fw/glibc-hwcaps] elf: Use the term "program interpreter" in the ld.so help message X-Act-Checkin: glibc X-Git-Author: Florian Weimer X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/fw/glibc-hwcaps X-Git-Oldrev: c09581872b6e398f6f862d5d622e19dd1adc5544 X-Git-Newrev: 7f4601c6481c6bb2526fece150c2dc0948b4bd05 Message-Id: <20201001165401.43698398B89E@sourceware.org> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:54:01 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Glibc-cvs mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:54:01 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=7f4601c6481c6bb2526fece150c2dc0948b4bd05 commit 7f4601c6481c6bb2526fece150c2dc0948b4bd05 Author: Florian Weimer Date: Mon Jun 8 17:44:52 2020 +0200 elf: Use the term "program interpreter" in the ld.so help message This is the term that the ELF standard itself uses. Diff: --- elf/dl-usage.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/elf/dl-usage.c b/elf/dl-usage.c index 7355b094a5..35a1c0c455 100644 --- a/elf/dl-usage.c +++ b/elf/dl-usage.c @@ -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\ +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\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\ +that file itself, but always uses the invoked program interpreter you\n\ +invoked, instead of the program interpreter specified in the executable\n\ +file you 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 inherted 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\