Dynamic linking on Linux

[Shyamal Shukla]

Hi all,

     In the case of dynamic linking, a single instance of a dynamic library
is loaded into memory and mapped into the address space of each process that
needs it.

Now a new process is loaded to memory, which utilizes a .so already in
memory. How does ld.so know if the required .so is already in memory and
what is its physical address?

Thanks and Regards,
Shyamal

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