Getting a list of used libraries by a running process (unix)

Question

I need to find out what libraries a unix process has loaded and might use throughout it\'s lifetime. Is this possible and how. Or better yet, i have a library name and i nee

Answer 1

you can use lsof. See the man page for more info. Another tool is strace. To see if a process is launched, you can use ps -ef piped to grep, or tools like pgrep as well. check for the return value to know if its quit or not.