Dynamic linkers and programs

• A typical Linux system contains several examples of dynamic linkers:

  • Almost every executable on the system uses the GNU ld.so dynamic linker to load shared libraries (such as the GNU C library!) in run time.
  • The XFree86 X server utilizes it's own internal dynamic linker and loader and uses it to load different modules it requires during operation.
  • Finally, the insmod(8) utility is in fact a dynamic linker used to link kernel modules into the Linux kernel itself, with some help from the kernel of course...