/usr/bin/ld.so as a symbolic link to /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 which in turn is a symbolic link to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2: $ namei /usr/bin/ld.so | grep '^ *l' | sed 's/^ *l //' ld.so -> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lib64 -> usr/lib64 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lib -> usr/lib
.interp section of an executable: $ readelf -p .interp /usr/bin/ls String dump of section '.interp': [ 0] /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
$ objdump -s -j .interp /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/ls: file format elf64-x86-64 Contents of section .interp: 0318 2f6c6962 36342f6c 642d6c69 6e75782d /lib64/ld-linux- 0328 7838362d 36342e73 6f2e3200 x86-64.so.2.