Manual: pldd

pldd(1)						   General Commands Manual					     pldd(1)

NAME
       pldd - display dynamic shared objects linked into a process

SYNOPSIS
       pldd pid

       pldd option

DESCRIPTION
       The pldd command displays a list of the dynamic shared objects (DSOs) that are linked into the process with the spec‐
       ified process ID (PID).	The list includes the libraries that have been dynamically loaded using dlopen(3).

OPTIONS
       --help
       -?     Display a help message and exit.

       --usage
	      Display a short usage message and exit.

       --version
       -V     Display program version information and exit.

EXIT STATUS
       On success, pldd exits with the status 0.  If the specified process does not exist, the user does not have permission
       to  access its dynamic shared object list, or no command-line arguments are supplied, pldd exists with a status of 1.
       If given an invalid option, it exits with the status 64.

VERSIONS
       Some other systems have a similar command.

STANDARDS
       None.

HISTORY
       glibc 2.15.

NOTES
       The command

	   lsof -p PID

       also shows output that includes the dynamic shared objects that are linked into a process.

       The gdb(1) info shared command also shows the shared libraries being used by a process, so that one can obtain  simi‐
       lar output to pldd using a command such as the following (to monitor the process with the specified pid):

	   $ gdb -ex "set confirm off" \
		 -ex "set height 0" \
		 -ex "info shared" \
		 -ex "quit" \
		 -p $pid \
	   | grep '^0x.*0x';

BUGS
       From  glibc  2.19  to glibc 2.29, pldd was broken: it just hung when executed.  This problem was fixed in glibc 2.30,
       and the fix has been backported to earlier glibc versions in some distributions.

EXAMPLES
       $ echo $$;		# Display PID of shell
       1143
       $ pldd $$;		# Display DSOs linked into the shell
       1143:   /usr/bin/bash
       linux-vdso.so.1
       /lib64/libtinfo.so.5
       /lib64/libdl.so.2
       /lib64/libc.so.6
       /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
       /lib64/libnss_files.so.2

SEE ALSO
       ldd(1), lsof(1), dlopen(3), ld.so(8)

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