Re: ld.so not ignoring LD_PRELOAD on seduid binaries?
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:50:17AM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> With regard to bug #98467: Has the value of LD_PRELOAD set by the fakeroot
> shell script changed between the current version and past versions of
> fakeroot, and if so, is this the reason why setuid programs now fail to
> execute at all? Is there any compelling reason why the value of LD_PRELOAD
> set by fakeroot couldn't be reverted to the one containing a '/'?
I remember this... it was to fix a problem on sparc, where two different
libfakeroots were needed (one for sparc32 and one for sparc64). Having
the full path in the LD_PRELOAD string prevented the dynamic loader from
being smart about which one to load.
Richard Braakman
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