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Re: [PATCH][v2] Add dynamic linker support for $EXEC_ORIGIN.
On 25/10/17 16:54, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> and Rich Felker notes that it can be hacked around
>> without elf changes using wrapper scripts like
>>
>> exec /lib/ld-linux.so.2 --library-path /path/with/dso/symlinks /path/to/exe "$@"
>
> That hack has its own set of problems. E.g. it doesn't work for Java,
> which likes to set environment variables to its liking and then
> re-execs itself.
>
how does that work with the proposed *_ORIGIN patch?
if they do execve(/proc/self/exe, argv, envp) then
that should break too.