Shared libraries are our best friends to extend the functionality of C programs without reinventing the wheel. They offer a collection of exported functions, variables, and other symbols that we ca… ...

Library vs. framework. A library is set of related, low-level components that developers invoke to achieve a specific outcome. Common library functions include date formatting and establishing a ...

All of these tasks are possible if you use the LD_PRELOAD environment variable and a small shim program placed between the application and the library. As an example, say you create a shared library ...