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SubjectRe: As 2.0 looms
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>I believe core dumping is OK (the dumpable flag is cleared if the program
>is unreadable). I know of at least one program (deslogin) which has
>encryption key compiled in (the binary is mode 711). I shouldn't have
>to link it statically to be safe... Another solution, which doesn't
>need kernel support, would be to have two versions of ld.so: one which
>ignores LD_xxx and one which is like the current ld.so.

>You decide
>which one you want to use at link time (default is to ignore LD_xxx -
>it's not necessary except for testing new shared libraries). I think

LD_xxx is also needed for programs such as zlibc, which work by
redefining certain library calls. Ignoring LD_xxx by default would
make any such program impractical.

Alain

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