On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:16 PM Edward Cree [off-list ref] wrote:

On 04/11/2020 03:11, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

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The user will do 'tc -V'. Does version mean anything from bpf loading pov?
It's not. The user will do "ldd `which tc`" and then what?

Is it beyond the wit of man for 'tc -V' to output somethingabout
 libbpf version?
Other libraries seem to solve these problems all the time, I
 haven't seen anyone explain what makes libbpf so special that it
 has to be different.

slow vger? Please see Daniel and Andrii detailed explanations.

libbpf is not your traditional library.
Looking through the installed libraries on my devserver in /lib64/ directory
I think the closest is libbfd.so
Then think why gdb always statically links it.