[fedora-java] patch to resurrect LD_PRELOAD hack

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Jan 24 10:03:01 UTC 2006


Tom Tromey writes:
 > This patch to libgcj would let us resurrect the LD_PRELOAD hack.  The
 > idea is to remove the "pr13212.so" entry from LD_PRELOAD during libgcj
 > startup, to avoid passing this to sub-processes which may not be
 > prepared for it.
 > 
 > This is quite ugly and, I think, won't be going into upstream libgcj.
 > 
 > Please comment.

So no process ever inherits the LD_PRELOAD unless it uses libgcj?  Sounds right.

Andrew.




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