>> Some of us (including me) would like to see the ld.so.conf search
>> path functionality ripped out completely (keeping the
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH functionality -- it's cheap and easy to skip that by
>> caching the getenv() result and checking for NULL).

Surely it's approximately as easy to cache "ld.so.conf doesn't exist"
as it is to cache "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset"?

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