XPost: uk.comp.os.linux   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:38:29 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:   
      
   > Java Jive  writes:   
   >>   
   >> 	/opt/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2   
   >   
   > That’s the runtime linker, not a library.   
      
   It’s in a library directory, it has the name extension of a shared   
   library, and furthermore, “nm -D” reports it defines symbols like a   
   library:   
      
       ldo@theon:~> nm -D /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2   
       0000000000011ad0 T _dl_allocate_tls@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000118b0 T _dl_allocate_tls_init@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000035a58 D _dl_argv@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000017950 T _dl_audit_preinit@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000179d0 T _dl_audit_symbind_alt@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000002320 T _dl_catch_exception@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000011b10 T _dl_deallocate_tls@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000003440 T _dl_debug_state@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000004660 T _dl_exception_create@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000004730 T _dl_exception_create_format@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000004bb0 T _dl_exception_free@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       000000000000d6a0 T _dl_fatal_printf@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       000000000000bc50 T _dl_find_dso_for_object@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000117b0 T _dl_get_tls_static_info@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       000000000001ad90 T _dl_mcount@@GLIBC_2.2.5   
       00000000000090a0 T _dl_rtld_di_serinfo@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000002120 T _dl_signal_error@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000020c0 T _dl_signal_exception@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000017650 T _dl_x86_get_cpu_features@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_2.2.5   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_2.3   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_2.34   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_2.35   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_2.4   
       0000000000000000 A GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000035a28 D __libc_enable_secure@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000035a20 D __libc_stack_end@@GLIBC_2.2.5   
       0000000000036bd8 B __nptl_initial_report_events@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000036b78 B _r_debug@@GLIBC_2.2.5   
       000000000002f3a0 R __rseq_flags@@GLIBC_2.35   
       00000000000359e0 D __rseq_offset@@GLIBC_2.35   
       00000000000359d8 D __rseq_size@@GLIBC_2.35   
       0000000000036000 D _rtld_global@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       0000000000035a80 D _rtld_global_ro@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000282d0 T __rtld_version_placeholder@GLIBC_2.34   
       0000000000014a40 T __tls_get_addr@@GLIBC_2.3   
       0000000000012ee0 T __tunable_get_val@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
       00000000000128a0 T __tunable_is_initialized@@GLIBC_PRIVATE   
      
   If that’s not enough to make it a “library”, I don’t know what is ...   
      
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