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Originally Posted by kbp
It probably reads the import table of the binary .. you may want to look at doco on the ELF file format
cheers
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No, ldd (on Linux) run executable in question with environment variable LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS set, and it tell to ld-linux not actually run the program, but only dump it's dependencies.
ldd is actually a script, so you can have a look yourself