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author | Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com> | 2022-12-18 16:52:22 +0200 |
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committer | Andrew Kaster <andrewdkaster@gmail.com> | 2022-12-31 05:06:39 -0700 |
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Utilities: Introduce the ldd utility
This utility lets a user to figure out what are the dependency libraries
for an ELF dynamic object, whether it's a dynamically loaded executable
or dynamically loaded library.
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diff --git a/Base/usr/share/man/man1/ldd.md b/Base/usr/share/man/man1/ldd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d358f0b788 --- /dev/null +++ b/Base/usr/share/man/man1/ldd.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +## Name + +ldd - list dynamic dependencies + +## Synopsis + +```**sh +$ ldd [-r] [-f] <path> +``` + +## Description + +`ldd` prints all dependency libraries of an ELF object. + +## Options + +* `-f`, `--force-without-valid-interpreter`: Force library resolving on ELF + object without a valid interpreter +* `-r`, `--max-recursion`: Max library resolving recursion + +## Arguments + +* `path`: Path to ELF object + +## Security + +In contrast to other OS implementations, the `ldd` binary is completely safe for +usage on untrusted binaries - we only use the `LibELF` code for doing library +resolving, and the actual binary interpreter (when specified) is never called to +decode the dependency information. + +## Examples + +```sh +# List all dependency libraries for libc.so +$ ldd -f /usr/lib/libc.so +# List all dependency libraries for /bin/id +$ ldd /bin/id +# List all dependency libraries for /bin/WindowServer +$ ldd /bin/WindowServer +``` |