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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [kde-linux] LD_LIBRARY_PATH disappears.]
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2003-11-20 4:12:52
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Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:50:06PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Anybody over here have any ideas?
> 
> 
>>HOWEVER, if I open a Konsole as su the: "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" environment
>>variable is set to "". :-(
>>
> 
> su is setuid (root), and the dynlinker automatically clears LD_* in such
> a case. that's annoying (usually it would be much better to just ignore,
> but still preserve it), but it needs to be that way for applications
> that don't know about these variables.
> dunno, whether kdesu does additional mangling of the path, or whether it
> was used in this case at all ...

Thanks for the info.  It would appear then that the bug is in the man page which says 
nothing about this.

This does tend to cause problems with running two versions of KDE on the same system.

--
JRT

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