From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 24 16:45:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA11862 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:45:11 -0700 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA11857 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:45:01 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA27093; Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:47:14 -0600 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 17:47:14 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199510242347.RAA27093@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert Cc: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ld.so, LD_NOSTD_PATH, and suid/sgid programs In-Reply-To: <199510242313.QAA14454@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199510242313.QAA14454@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert writes: > > >As it currently sits, it's not harmful, and it represents a direction > > >that is desirable. > > > > Since it isn't implemented correctly, it just increase startup time, > > let's wait until author implement it properly (in Sun style). If > > proper implementation never happens, we don't need to keep it too. > > #ifdef? Since the run-time loader code affects the memory size of *every* single binary in the system, removing un-necessary/un-needed functionality from it is a win. We still have the CVS tree which we can use to pull out the code from if we need it at a later date. This does assume one has access to the CVS tree, but given the extreme interest that has been shown in the code up till this point I'd be very suprised to get a sudden rash of volunteers wanting to implement LD_NOSTD_PATH but they don't have enough code to work with. :) Nate