Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Is there a way to reliably retrieve the path to a library?
> 
> I tried to opendir("/proc/<pid>/path/")
> and readdir()/readlink() the entries. If all library 
> names differ, this allows to find the path to any lib of
> interest.
> 
> Unfortunately, this does not help if there are two 
> libraries with the same name (e.g. /tmp/libm.so.2
> and /lib/libm.so.2). Is there a way to get the 
> path that is related to a handle returned by dlopen()?

If I remember correctly the function you want is dladdr(3C)
and the member of the structure is dli_fname.

If I am not remembering correctly someone on tools-linking (cc'd)
will be able to help you.

-- 
Darren J Moffat

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