So, if dynamic executables don't contain everything they need to run, what part of Linux has the job of loading them along with any necessary shared libraries so that they can execute correctly? The answer is something called the dynamic loader, which is actually the ld-linux.so.2 library that you see listed as a shared library dependency in ln's ldd listing. The dynamic loader takes care of loading the shared libraries that dynamically linked executables need in order to run. Now, let's take a quick look at how the dynamic loader finds the appropriate shared libraries on your system.