Re: PG Patch (fwd) [OpenServer followup #1]

Follow-up to a question from Bruce on the phone, re: the open server patch
2nd to follow.

Kean has graciously agreed to answer questions if y'all need them answered.

LER

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Date: Friday, July 18, 2003 23:24:47 -0700
From: Kean Johnston <jkj(at)sco(dot)com>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: PG Patch

Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I got a question from the PG Core Team (Bruce Momjian) about the
> rpathdir portion of
> your patch.
>
> Why can't it use libdir? Or can we wrap it in .if (port,=,sco) type
> stuff?
>
> There's concern that we'll break other platforms.

Since OSR5 was the only platform that defines it, not much chance of
breaking anything, and other platform may find it useful when people
finally understand all of the security implications about using DT_RUNPATH
in ELF. I *ALWAYS* hard-code the full path so that libraries cannot be
subverted by a user by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Kean

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