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30 .Dd September 7, 2009
31 .Dt LDD 1
32 .Os
33 .Sh NAME
34 .Nm ldd
35 .Nd list dynamic object dependencies
36 .Sh SYNOPSIS
37 .Nm
38 .Op Fl o
39 .Op Fl f Ar format
40 .Ar program ...
41 .Sh DESCRIPTION
42 .Nm
43 displays all shared objects that are needed to run the given program.
44 Contrary to
45 .Xr nm 1 ,
46 the list includes
47 .Dq indirect
48 dependencies that are the result of needed shared objects which themselves
49 depend on yet other shared objects.
50 Zero, one or two
51 .Fl f
52 options may be given.
53 The argument is a format string passed to
54 .Xr rtld 1
55 and allows customization of
56 .Nm ldd Ns 's
57 output.
58 The first format argument is used for library objects and defaults to
59 .Qq "\et-l%o.%m =\*[Gt] %p\en" .
60 The second format argument is used for non-library objects and defaults to
61 .Qq "\et%o =\*[Gt] %p\en" .
62 .Pp
63 These arguments are interpreted as format strings a la
64 .Xr printf 3
65 to customize the trace output and allow
66 .Nm
67 to be operated as a filter more conveniently.
68 The following conversions can be used:
69 .Bl -tag -width xxxx
70 .It \&%a
71 The main program's name
72 .Po also known as
73 .Dq __progname
74 .Pc .
75 .It \&%A
76 The value of the environment variable
77 .Ev LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS_PROGNAME
78 in a.out and the program name from the argument vector from elf.
79 .It \&%o
80 The library name.
81 .It \&%m
82 The library's major version number.
83 .It \&%n
84 The library's minor version number (a.out only, ignored in elf).
85 .It \&%p
86 The full pathname as determined by
87 .Nm rtld Ns 's
88 library search rules.
89 .It \&%x
90 The library's load address
91 .El
92 .Pp
93 Additionally,
94 .Sy \en
95 and
96 .Sy \et
97 are recognized and have their usual meaning.
98 .Pp
99 The
100 .Fl o
101 option is an alias for
102 .Fl f
103 .Ar \&%a:-l\&%o.\&%m =\*[Gt] \&%p\en ,
104 which makes
105 .Nm
106 behave analogously to
107 .Ic nm Fl o .
108 .Sh SEE ALSO
109 .Xr ld 1 ,
110 .Xr ld.elf_so 1 ,
111 .Xr nm 1 ,
112 .Xr rtld 1
113 .Sh HISTORY
114 A
115 .Nm
116 utility first appeared in SunOS 4.0, it appeared in its current form
117 in
118 .Nx 0.9a .
119 .Sh BUGS
120 The
121 a.out
122 .Nm
123 actually runs the program it has been requested to analyze which in specially
124 constructed environments can have security implications.