der Mouse writes:
> In my opinion this is a bug in ld.so.  How many more "bugs" are we
> going to have to run into because of it before we fix it?

If you want to fix it, I'm sure no one will prevent you from doing so, 
and people may even be happy that you've done it. This is a user
supported operating system. "You see a problem, fix it!"

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