[mike@thiscomputer experimental]$ echo 'int main() {}' >test.c [mike@thiscomputer experimental]$ gcc test.c -o test [mike@thiscomputer experimental]$ strace ./test execve("./test", ["./test"], [/* 54 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=136060, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 136060, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ef9000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360d\1\0004\0\0\0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1488269, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ef8000 mmap2(NULL, 1267248, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7dc2000 mmap2(0xb7ef2000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x130) = 0xb7ef2000 mmap2(0xb7ef5000, 9776, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ef5000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7dc1000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7dc16c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xb7ef2000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7ef9000, 136060) = 0 exit_group(1) = ?