From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6395 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2010 14:11:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 6378 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Dec 2010 14:11:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-fx0-f42.google.com (HELO mail-fx0-f42.google.com) (209.85.161.42) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:11:28 +0000 Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so3547974fxm.15 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:11:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.110.148 with SMTP id n20mr947739fap.48.1291990285854; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:11:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.122.212 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:04:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore origin of privileged program To: Andreas Schwab Cc: libc-hacker@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 03:46, Andreas Schwab wrote: > I don't think this is useful. =C2=A0Libraries are not installed alongside > programs and privileged programs can only use $ORIGIN exactly. Of course it is useful. $ORIGIN is about the build process as much as anything else. If I can relocate a package just by installing the files with a different prefix that's a big plus. For this you need $ORIGIN or otherwise rebuild everything (binary editing doesn't work in general).