Sudo was an example, and is certainly not the only place this problem occurs. Variables cannot be set in the child process; the linker will have already run by

Sudo was an example, and is certainly not the only place this problem occurs. Variables cannot be set in the child process; the linker will have already run by the time you can access your environment. Furthermore, this scheme destroys the utility of LD_* variables, which itself is a non-starter. All setuid binaries will be incompatible with any scheme which involves environment variables controlling the linker -- that's a core element of unix security architecture. Over here [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995200 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995200 ] someone who I believe is the author suggested that this thing uses DT_RPATH, and I've outlined the problems with that mechanism as well. Perhaps I'm coming across as a curmudgeon, if so I apologize. But I've worked on this problem quite deeply and there's just no way to reliably solve it. Modifications to ld.so are an absolute requirement.