Is there a way to inspect the current rpath on Linux?

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Published on 2010-05-14T17:42:39Z Indexed on 2010/05/14 17:44 UTC
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I'm aware that it is possible to use 'readelf -d | grep RPATH' to inspect a given binary from the shell, but is it possible to do this within a process?

Something like (my completely made up system call):

  /* get a copy of current rpath into buffer */
  sys_get_current_rpath(&buffer);

I'm trying to diagnose some suspect SO linking issues in our codebase, and would like to inspect the RPATH this way if possible (I'd rather not have to spawn an external script).

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