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 find_elf 1 "25 March 2010"
 NAME
find_elf - Locate ELF shared objects and executables

 SYNOPSIS
find_elf [-afrs] path



 DESCRIPTION
 "OS-Net build tools" "find_elf" "" "find_elf" The
 find_elf command descends a directory hierarchy and produces one line
of output on stdout for each ELF executable or shared object found.



 OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

 4
 -a Disable alias processing. Symbolic links are treated as independent
files, each such link results in a separate OBJECT output line,
and ALIAS lines are not issued.

 4
 -f Fast Mode. When reading directories, the file name and modes are
used to eliminate files from consideration and speed up the search:
Directories with names that start with a '.' character are skipped.
Executables must have the execute bit set, and
shared objects must end with a .so extension. Files that do not
meet these requirements are silently eliminated from consideration without
further analysis.

 4
 -r Report file names as relative paths, relative to the given file or directory,
instead of fully qualified.

 4
 -s Only report shared objects.



 OUTPUT

 find_elf produces a series of PREFIX, OBJECT, and ALIAS lines, which collectively
describe the ELF objects located. Whitespace is used within each
line to delimit the various fields of information provided.


If the -r option is used to specify that file names be reported
as relative paths, a PREFIX line is output to provide the base path from
which the relative names should be interpreted.
There can only be one PREFIX line, and it is output first, before any
OBJECT or ALIAS lines.

PREFIX path


For each object found, an OBJECT line is produced to describe it:

OBJECT [32 | 64] [DYN | EXEC] [VERDEF | NOVERDEF] object-path


The first field provides the ELF class of the object, and will be
either 32 or 64. 
The second field provides the type of object, either
a shared object (DYN) or executable (EXEC).
The third field will be VERDEF if the object contains ELF
version definitions, and NOVERDEF if the object is not versioned.
The final field gives the path to the object.


Under Unix, a file can have multiple names. In the context of ELF
objects, this often happens for one of two reasons:




Compilation symlinks, used to provide a non-versioned name for a shared object.






Symlinks such as '32' and '64' used to provide alternative
non-machine specific paths to objects.


When
 find_elf identifies an object via such an aliased name, it issues an ALIAS line
mapping it to the main name for the object:

ALIAS object-path alias-path


The -a option alters the handling of aliased names. When -a is
specified, each file results in a separate OBJECT line, as if they were
independent files rather than the same file with different names.



 EXAMPLES
Assume the following hierarchy of files exist under /usr/lib/foo:

% /bin/ls -alRF /usr/lib/foo
/usr/lib/foo:
total 111
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7 Jul 16 17:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 34 root root 42 Jul 16 17:34 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 1 Jul 16 17:34 32 -> ./
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 5 Jul 16 17:34 64 -> amd64/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 4 Jul 16 17:35 amd64/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 11 Jul 16 17:35 libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 49132 Jul 16 17:35 libfoo.so.1*

/usr/lib/foo/amd64:
total 150
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4 Jul 16 17:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 7 Jul 16 17:35 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root bin 11 Jul 16 17:35 libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 72536 Jul 16 17:35 libfoo.so.1*


This hierarchy contains compilation symlinks (libfoo.so) and
path alias symlinks (32, 64), as discussed in OUTPUT.
.p
 find_elf produces the following output for the above hierarchy:

% find_elf -r /usr/lib/foo
PREFIX /usr/lib/foo
OBJECT 64 DYN VERDEF amd64/libfoo.so.1
ALIAS amd64/libfoo.so.1 64/libfoo.so
ALIAS amd64/libfoo.so.1 64/libfoo.so.1
ALIAS amd64/libfoo.so.1 amd64/libfoo.so
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF libfoo.so.1
ALIAS libfoo.so.1 32/libfoo.so
ALIAS libfoo.so.1 32/libfoo.so.1
ALIAS libfoo.so.1 libfoo.so


Contrast this with the output when -a is used to treat
each name as an independent file:

% find_elf -ar /usr/lib/foo
PREFIX /usr/lib/foo
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF 32/libfoo.so
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF 32/libfoo.so.1
OBJECT 64 DYN VERDEF 64/libfoo.so
OBJECT 64 DYN VERDEF 64/libfoo.so.1
OBJECT 64 DYN VERDEF amd64/libfoo.so.1
OBJECT 64 DYN VERDEF amd64/libfoo.so
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF libfoo.so.1
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF libfoo.so


When
 find_elf is used to process an alias for which no target object is given,
there will be no output. For example, using /lib/libc.so, which
is a compilation symlink for /lib/libc.so.1:

% find_elf /lib/libc.so


In such situations, the -a option can be used to produce
the desired output:

% find_elf -a /lib/libc.so
OBJECT 32 DYN VERDEF /lib/libc.so







 SEE ALSO
 check_rtime (1),  interface_check (1),  interface_cmp (1),  ld (1),  ldd (1),  elfdump (1),  pvs (1). 

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