Is there a programmatic way to inspect the current rpath on Linux?

I'm aware that it is possible to use readelf -d <elf> | grep RPATH to inspect a given binary from the shell, but is it possible to do this within a process?

Something like (my completely made up system call):

  /* get a copy of current rpath into buffer */
  sys_get_current_rpath(&buffer);

I'm trying to diagnose some suspect SO linking issues in our codebase, and would like to inspect the RPATH this way if possible (I'd rather not have 开发者_开发知识库to spawn an external script).

For the record, here are a couple of commands that will show the rpath / runpath header.

objdump -x binary-or-library |grep 'R.*PATH'

Maybe an even better way to do it is the following:

readelf -d binary-or-library |head -20

The second command also lists the direct dependencies on other libraries followed by rpath.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <elf.h>
#include <link.h>

int main()
{
  const ElfW(Dyn) *dyn = _DYNAMIC;
  const ElfW(Dyn) *rpath = NULL;
  const char *strtab = NULL;
  for (; dyn->d_tag != DT_NULL; ++dyn) {
    if (dyn->d_tag == DT_RPATH) {
      rpath = dyn;
    } else if (dyn->d_tag == DT_STRTAB) {
      strtab = (const char *)dyn->d_un.d_val;
    }
  }

  if (strtab != NULL && rpath != NULL) {
    printf("RPATH: %s\n", strtab + rpath->d_un.d_val);
  }
  return 0;
}

You can also use:

chrpath -l binary-or-library

Here's what I use for convenience, as a shell function:

function getrpath {
    eu-readelf -d "${1:?}" | sed -e '/RUNPATH/{s~.*\[\(.*\)\]~\1~;n};d'
}

This consumes eu-readelf output from elfutils like:

Type              Value
NEEDED            Shared library: [libpq.so.5]
NEEDED            Shared library: [libc.so.6]
RUNPATH           Library runpath: [/some/path/to/lib]
....

and emits

 /some/path/to/lib

It should work fine with binutils readelf instead of elfutils eu-readelf too.

There is a way. Follow the example code in man dlinfo [1], but use NULL as the first parameter of dlopen().

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dlinfo.3.html