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Re: $ORIGIN (was: Re: make: ensure ${.MAKE} works)

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Subject: Re: $ORIGIN (was: Re: make: ensure ${.MAKE} works)
From: christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:19:43 +0000 (UTC)

In article <20100503050601.GA4400%netbsd.org@localhost>,
David Holland  <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>For the time being, even if we just provide a relative path when
>getcwd fails it'd still be more functional than the current situation.

This would be a security flaw, because a program that chdir's could
find the wrong shared libraries.

christos

References:
- make: ensure ${.MAKE} works
  - From: Simon J. Gerraty
- Re: $ORIGIN (was: Re: make: ensure ${.MAKE} works)
  - From: David Laight
- Re: $ORIGIN (was: Re: make: ensure ${.MAKE} works)
  - From: der Mouse
- Re: $ORIGIN (was: Re: make: ensure ${.MAKE} works)
  - From: David Holland

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