In this article, we will explore the impact of Ldd (Unix) on modern society. Ldd (Unix) has been the subject of interest and debate for a long time, and its influence spans a wide range of contexts. From the cultural to the political sphere, Ldd (Unix) has left a mark on all aspects of contemporary life. Over the next few pages, we will examine how Ldd (Unix) has shaped our perceptions, behaviors, and relationships, and consider its role in shaping the world we inhabit today.
ldd (List Dynamic Dependencies) is a *nix utility that prints the shared libraries required by each program or shared library specified on the command line.[1] It was developed by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.[2] If some shared library is missing for any program, that program won't come up.
ldd is a shell script that executes the program given as argument, and shouldn't be used with untrusted binaries. The ldd manual page suggests to use the following command using the objdump and grep utilities as alternative:[3]
user@home ~/ $ objdump -p /path/program | grep NEEDED
user@home ~/ $ ldd /usr/bin/mp3blaster
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff8fdff000)
libsidplay.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsidplay.so.1 (0x00007f4ea98ec000)
libvorbisfile.so.3 => /usr/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3 (0x00007f4ea96e4000)
libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0x00007f4ea94b6000)
libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00007f4ea9273000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f4ea9056000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f4ea8d41000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f4ea8abe000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f4ea88a7000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4ea8523000)
libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0x00007f4ea831c000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f4ea8118000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4ea9b59000)
user@home ~/ $ ldd /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.20
linux-gate.so.1 (0xb7733000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb75da000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb742f000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7734000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7411000)