Ok, here is strace of date(1), which is dynamically linked, on Alpine Linux which uses Musl libc not glibc. execve("/bin/date", ["date"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0

Ok, here is strace of date(1), which is dynamically linked, on Alpine Linux which uses Musl libc not glibc. execve("/bin/date", ["date"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0 mprotect(0x7777dcd5a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xdc2d89a3000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0xdc2d89a4268) = 0 set_tid_address(0xdc2d89a4298) = 2439 clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1424769563, 611556639}) = 0 open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 118, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x7777dcd57000 close(3) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_NEXT_DEVICE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 writev(1, [{"Tue Feb 24 09:19:23 UTC 2015", 28}, {"\n", 1}], 2Tue Feb 24 09:19:23 UTC 2015 ) = 29 close(1) = 0 close(2) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? +++ exited with 0 +++