Re: man/man8/ldconfig.8: document system-wide tunables

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:33:10 +0200

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Hi DJ,

On 2026-07-10T22:07:00+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> > I looked for ld.so.conf.5 but didn't see one (which kinda surprised me,
> > but a lot of ldconfig isn't documented either in the man pages or in the
> > glibc manual) so went with "what was there".  I have a slight preference
> > for "get this change in quickly" as glibc is releasing with the new
> > funcionality soon(ish) but if you want me to split these two out, I can
> > do that too.  Or do it later.
> 
> I would very much prefer to split these out.
> 
> An incomplete ld.so.conf.5 page would be fine; we don't need to make it
> perfect.  But the separate manual page would help keep this
> documentation reasonably organized.
> 
> I can help to get this quickly in.

I have added a small ld.so.conf(5) manual page (already pushed to
master).  This will allow you to add stuff there.  If you want to add
a tunables.conf(5) manual page, you can have a look at the ld.so.conf(5)
page.


Cheers,
Alex


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