Identifying which Linux system library contains a function

Question

I am using a dev system where I have to specify the lib name when accessing a function inside it.

I\'ve used functions like open() before, and somehow found out that

Answer 1

Try this:

$ cat ./foobar.c
#include 
#include 
#include 
int main(void)
{
    struct stat buf;
    return lstat(".", &buf);
}


$ LD_DEBUG=bindings ./foobar 2>&1   | grep stat
31000:  binding file ./foobar [0] to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 [0]: \
normal symbol `__lxstat' [GLIBC_2.2.5]