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| author | Charles Giessen <charles@lunarg.com> | 2022-12-02 14:21:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Charles Giessen <46324611+charles-lunarg@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-12-02 17:06:18 -0600 |
| commit | 82d4232f0f348f66582dd4d5ac15cdb449e08ca1 (patch) | |
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Document interaction of layer env-vars for linux
> If `VK_LAYER_PATH` is present, then `VK_ADD_LAYER_PATH` will not be
used by the loader and any values will be ignored.
This was present for the Windows documentation but not for linux and
company.
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diff --git a/docs/LoaderLayerInterface.md b/docs/LoaderLayerInterface.md index 79737788..1d0a3be7 100644 --- a/docs/LoaderLayerInterface.md +++ b/docs/LoaderLayerInterface.md @@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ provided by the standard explicit layer paths mentioned above. The paths provided by `VK_ADD_LAYER_PATH` are added before the standard list of search folders and will therefore be searched first. +If `VK_LAYER_PATH` is present, then `VK_ADD_LAYER_PATH` will not be used by the +loader and any values will be ignored. + For security reasons, both `VK_LAYER_PATH` and `VK_ADD_LAYER_PATH` are ignored if running with elevated privileges. See [Exception for Elevated Privileges](#exception-for-elevated-privileges) |