Subj : Re: How to get list of shared libraries used by program
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Larry I Smith
Date : Tue Sep 07 2004 10:55 pm

hitectahir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there some function or system call through which I can get, at
> runtime, a list of the shared libraries loaded by my program? Or
> perhaps some place in /proc where the list of loaded shared libraries
> is temporarily stored?
> 
> Thanks
> Tahir.

If you merely want to know what libs will be loaded, then
'ldd' (man ldd) will give you a list of libs that a program
will load at runtime.  For example, to find out which libs
'grep' will load use:

    ldd /usr/bin/grep

Regards,
Larry

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