[Fedora-directory-devel] Re: RPATH status

[Richard Megginson]

David Boreham wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
>> Not in particular, but an interesting point was made on the fedora-devel
>> list:  If the 'wrapped' binary forks a child, then that unrelated child
>> also inherits the environment, which may not be desired.  
>>
> FDS never forks anything. I suppose a perl backend or the link
> might _exec_ a child but I can't imagine why it would be useful to 
> fork ever.
>
>> In Samba4, we 'solved' the similar problems (on a smaller scale) by
>> including the code statically.  I can't claim that's a Superior
>> solution...
>>  
>>
> Bah ! I spent an entire weekend in 1996 making that code into a shared 
> library.
Fedora _strongly discourages_ the use of static libraries.  They made us 
convert svrcore into a shared library so that it could be included into 
Fedora [Extras].
>
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