USELIB(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 USELIB(2)

NAME

       uselib - load shared library

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       int uselib(const char *library);

DESCRIPTION

       The  system call uselib() serves to load a shared library to be used by the calling process.  It is given a pathname.  The address where to
       load is found in the library itself.  The library can have any recognized binary format.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, zero is returned.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       In addition to all of the error codes returned by open(2) and mmap(2), the following may also be returned:

       EACCES The library specified by library does not have read or execute permission, or the caller does not have search permission for one	of
	      the directories in the path prefix.  (See also path_resolution(7).)

       ENFILE The system limit on the total number of open files has been reached.

       ENOEXEC
	      The file specified by library is not an executable of known type, e.g., does not have the correct magic numbers.

CONFORMING TO

       uselib() is Linux-specific, and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.

NOTES

       uselib() was used by early libc startup code to load the shared libraries with names found in an array of names in the binary.

       Since  libc 4.3.2, startup code tries to prefix these names with "/usr/lib", "/lib" and "" before giving up.  In libc 4.3.4 and later these
       names are looked for in the directories found in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and if not found there, prefixes "/usr/lib", "/lib" and "/" are tried.

       From libc 4.4.4 on only the library "/lib/ld.so" is loaded, so that this dynamic library can load the  remaining  libraries  needed  (again
       using this call).  This is also the state of affairs in libc5.

       glibc2 does not use this call.

SEE ALSO

       ar(1), gcc(1), ld(1), ldd(1), mmap(2), open(2), dlopen(3), capabilities(7), ld.so(8)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2005-01-09								 USELIB(2)