DYLD — Do You Like Death? (VII)

Karol Mazurek
15 min readApr 8, 2024

The lifecycle of a Dynamic Loader from its creation to its termination.

This is the seventh article in the series about debugging Dyld-1122 and analyzing its source code. We will cover logging and dyldCache members of the ProcessConfig and understand how three environmental variables: DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE,DYLD_SHARED_REGION & DYLD_SHARED_CACHE_DIR works.

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