Re: broken by the FPATH environment variable defined by bash / lmod
Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]>
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On 2026-08-18 08:40:54 -0400, Eric Cook wrote: > On 8/17/26 9:31 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM Eric Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Nor does it justify the breaking of long standing use cases > > > > The one thing that might justify it is an appeal to security. > > MODULE_PATH has been import-prevented on those grounds since before > > the git repository existed, but is it that really any more dangerous > > than supplanting the functions library? > > I am not a security expert, but can't you already circumvent that with > stuff like LD_PRELOAD? LD_PRELOAD is not tied to a particular software, so I suppose that it is well-known and if some cleanup is needed, this will be done in some generic way. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)