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authorjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>2008-03-19 05:07:49 +0000
committerjkoshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>2008-03-19 05:07:49 +0000
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Clarify that the ELF library only sets the sh_entsize field of a
section header entry if the application is not taking charge of ELF object layout. Update (c) years, and bump the manual page's date. Submitted by: kaiw
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libelf')
-rw-r--r--lib/libelf/elf_update.38
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libelf/elf_update.3 b/lib/libelf/elf_update.3
index 1b1ca59..33a14d1 100644
--- a/lib/libelf/elf_update.3
+++ b/lib/libelf/elf_update.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2007 Joseph Koshy. All rights reserved.
+.\" Copyright (c) 2006,2007-2008 Joseph Koshy. All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd October 22, 2007
+.Dd March 19, 2008
.Os
.Dt ELF_UPDATE 3
.Sh NAME
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ This value must be a power of two.
.It Va sh_entsize
Set to the size of each entry, for sections containing fixed size
elements, or set to zero for sections without fixed size elements.
-For section contents of types known to the library, the application
-may leave this field as zero.
+If the application is not managing file layout, it may leave this
+field as zero for those sections whose types known to the library.
.It Va sh_flags
Set to the desired section flags.
.It Va sh_info
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