Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 18:26 PDT From: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) To: ache@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: ld.so, LD_NOSTD_PATH, and suid/sgid programs Message-ID: <m0t7Y8B-000078C@seattle.polstra.com>
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> And most interesting thing is that LD_NOSTD_PATH not works at all yet. > You can check it by setting LD_NOSTD_PATH, nothing happens then. > I.e. you can still run all shared binaries with STD path. :-) Yes. That is because ld.so still uses the hints file even when LD_NOSTD_PATH is set. If it finds a needed library in ld.so.hints, it will use it. I'm not arguing that this behavior is correct; I'm just explaining what's going on. John Polstra jdp@polstra.com Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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