Inject a shared library or DLL into a running process in Linux

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What is the need for injecting the shared libraries without the process doing it by itself?

Once again: WHY?

Which is the problem you think to solve with this kind of operation?

Are you attempting to change a shared library which the process is already using?

I assume that you are referring to dynamic loading. Take a look at the dlopen and dlsym functions.

Paul

I dont know of any possibility of doing something like this during runtime. I think this should be hardly necessary anyway.

Have a look at LD_PRELOAD, if you intend to change the behaviour of standrad library functions, this should be sufficient.

If not you need to post further details of what you are trying to do.

Sven

This is how I understood the Question of the OP as well.

Something like this can be achieved using LD_PRELOAD in conjunction with an external mechanism (shares memory comes to mind) to change the behaviour of a given funktion.

Sven