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Ldconfig
In computing, ldconfig is a shell command used for creating and updating symbolic links and the cache for shared libraries. It is found in most Linux distributions and FreeBSD, and it is part of the glibc package. ldconfig works by searching for .so files in directories specified in the /etc/ld.so.conf file, the trusted directories ( /lib and /usr/lib , or /lib64 and /usr/lib64 on multilib systems), and any directories specified on the command line. The generated binary cache file, /etc/ld.so.cache , is used by ld.so to speed up library lookup at runtime. ldconfig can be compared to regsvr32 in Windows and ReactOS, and to dyld in macOS.
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In computing, ldconfig is a shell command used for creating and updating symbolic links and the cache for shared libraries. It is found in most Linux distributions and FreeBSD, and it is part of the glibc package. ldconfig works by searching for .so files in directories specified in the /etc/ld.so.conf file, the trusted directories ( /lib and /usr/lib , or /lib64 and /usr/lib64 on multilib systems), and any directories specified on the command line. The generated binary cache file, /etc/ld.so.cache , is used by ld.so to speed up library lookup at runtime. ldconfig can be compared to regsvr32 in Windows and ReactOS, and to dyld in macOS.
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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