What to do when glibc environment variables or tunables conflict?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Feb 06 2020, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> On 06/02/20 03:42, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> Explicit use of LD_BIND_NOW=1 or LD_DEBUG=unused disables ld audit
>> because both uses set GLRO(dl_lazy) to zero and disable lazy binding
>
> LD_DEBUG doing that is a bug.

I disagree.  LD_DEBUG=unused is for probing, and doesn't even run the
object.  So auditing doesn't come into play.

> To expand on LD_DEBUG, it should be the lowest priority. 

No, it should be highest priority.  It's a debugging device, so it needs
to be honored to be useful.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE  1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7
"And now for something completely different."