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Re: [PATCH][v2] Add dynamic linker support for $EXEC_ORIGIN.
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Brooks Moses <bmoses at google dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Carlos O'Donnell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at google dot com>, Benjamin Peterson <bp at benjamin dot pe>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:13:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][v2] Add dynamic linker support for $EXEC_ORIGIN.
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On Okt 24 2017, Brooks Moses <bmoses@google.com> wrote:
> (Quick summary: $EXEC_ORIGIN in rpaths is like $ORIGIN, but it expands
> to the executable's path as passed to execve(), rather than resolving
> symlinks in the executable's path as $ORIGIN does.)
I think the name is confusing, since both $EXEC_ORIGIN and $ORIGIN
expand to the origin of the executable.
Andreas.
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