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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
.\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
.\" Modified 2005-01-09 by aeb
.\"
-.TH uselib 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH uselib 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
uselib \- load shared library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "[[deprecated]] int uselib(const char *" library );
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -65,13 +65,13 @@ Therefore, in order to employ this system call,
it was sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;
alternatively, you could invoke the system call using
.BR syscall (2).
-.PP
+.P
In ancient libc versions (before glibc 2.0),
.BR uselib ()
was used to load
the shared libraries with names found in an array of names
in the binary.
-.\" .PP
+.\" .P
.\" .\" libc 4.3.1f - changelog 1993-03-02
.\" Since libc 4.3.2, startup code tries to prefix these names
.\" with "/usr/lib", "/lib" and "" before giving up.
@@ -81,14 +81,14 @@ in the binary.
.\" .BR LD_LIBRARY_PATH ,
.\" and if not found there,
.\" prefixes "/usr/lib", "/lib" and "/" are tried.
-.\" .PP
+.\" .P
.\" From libc 4.4.4 on only the library "/lib/ld.so" is loaded,
.\" so that this dynamic library can load the remaining libraries needed
.\" (again using this call).
.\" This is also the state of affairs in libc5.
-.\" .PP
+.\" .P
.\" glibc2 does not use this call.
-.PP
+.P
Since Linux 3.15,
.\" commit 69369a7003735d0d8ef22097e27a55a8bad9557a
this system call is available only when the kernel is configured with the