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Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0



** On Mar 26, Elie Rosenblum scribbled:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:55:50PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > Exactly... But it looks like a broken IPC handle or something... Also, did
> > you notice that vmware ignores (how?) the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable?
> 
> setuid binaries haven't honored LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a long, long time.
> It would be a serious security issue.
Definitely so. I just missed the fact that vmware is suid root...

marek

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