DYLD — Do You Like Death? (VIII)

Karol Mazurek
13 min readApr 23, 2024

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

This is the eighth article in the series about debugging Dyld-1122 and analyzing its source code. We will cover PathOverrides member of the ProcessConfig, enumerate path-specific Dyld Environmental Variables, and understand how overrides and path fallbacks work for Dylibs.

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