[PATCH] Make LD_ASSUME_KERNEL working even for static binaries

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Dec 9 13:43:00 GMT 2002


Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> I'm not sure either way. LD_ASSUME_KERNEL in ld.so ATM is not limited to
> non-suid.

I don't think it is necessary to use __secure_getenv.  It doesn't let
the user directly make decisions about what DSO is used.  And if the
DSOs with support are vulnerable to something the new DSOs are not there
are other ways to get to this.

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