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Hidden dependencies in Linux binaries.

I have recently released an open source tool called sotrace. It maps out the .so dependencies for a binary or library, and presents them in a nice graph. When I run it on my lean, mean, simple test program that runs a Vulkan Compute shader, I get this graph of dynamically linked libraries. So tidy! Because I also wanted run-time loaded dependencies, I added a mode where you can run sotool on a process-id instead. Running it on a process of the exact same binary, I gaze into the chasm of complexi...

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