Re: RUNPATH. (Was: Shared libraries. How are they found?)

[Niels Möller]

Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> As far as I can see, the exec server just loads and runs the binary.  The
> code to fire up the linker and bring into the shared libraries is compiled
> into each executables:
> 
> $ strings /bin/ls | grep ld.so
> /lib/ld.so

Isn't that string just from the contents of the .interp section of the
ELF file? I.e. it tells whatever it is that tries to load the ELF
file, to first load the dynamic linker and let that do the work of
"interpreting" the file.

/Niels