Tools for Developing

These tools are mostly used on Linux, for example, CentOS 8.5 and Ubuntu 22.04.

ldd

Print shared object dependencies, for example:

$ ldd /bin/ls
    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe33b7d000)
    libselinux.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libselinux.so.1 (0x00007f4fe44dd000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f4fe42b4000)
    libpcre2-8.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre2-8.so.0 (0x00007f4fe421d000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f4fe4534000)

strace

Trace the syscalls, for example:

$ strace -e openat cat /dev/null
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
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In which the -e openat filter in only openat syscall.

dmesg

Show kernel logs:

$ sudo dmesg -w

See the log levels:

$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
4       4       1       7

The result shows the current, default, minimum and boot-time-default log levels.

Modify the current log level:

$ echo 8 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/printk

This command turns on all messages.

See https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/core-api/printk-basics.html for details.