xvendor - Re: Source of ld.so.8 (was: Debian Bug#473458)

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:17:28 +0400
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Source of ld.so.8 (was: Debian Bug#473458)

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 09:06:01PM +0200, Joey Schulze wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@...rs.sourceforge.net> -----
> 
> The ld.so manpage seems to be introduced (not patched) by Debian's
> diff.  Where does the ld.so.8 page used by the rest of the world come
> from?  Does redhat or someone else maintain another page (separate
> from both glibc upstream and Debian).
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> Where do other distributions take ld.so.8 from?  Do they use the
> version provided by Michael via the man-pages package?  Or do they
> use a local version accompanied by the ld.so source code?

Just checked Owl and ALT Linux, both use ld.so.8 from the man-pages
package.


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