On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:16 PM Edward Cree <ecree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 04/11/2020 03:11, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > 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.