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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-11 20:28:11 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-03-11 20:28:11 +0100
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dl_iterate_phdr.3: Note that first object visited by 'callback' is the main program
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94141 Reported-by: Simon Que <sque@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ structure; in that event, the
.I size
argument provides a mechanism for the callback function to discover
whether it is running on a system with added fields.
+
+The first object visited by
+.IR callback
+is the main program.
+For the main program, the
+.I dlpi_name
+field will be an empty string.
.SH EXAMPLE
The following program displays a list of pathnames of the
shared objects it has loaded.