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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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+## 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
+```