From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Peter_=C5strand?= <altic@lysator.liu.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 18:45:45 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Dynamic libs

> > What about LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH?
> 
> This should affect only the GGI libs of the user that sets these
> two variables himself: it should not have any special effect on
> the kernel driver, nor on other users which have different paths.
> 
> If the kernel driver integrity is not compromised, we can
> expect the hardware to remain safe, and the various users

No, we can't. The discussion was about exporting acceleration
registers to GGI-libs, and that this was safe _if_ the libs were safe &
unmodified. But you can never trust libs. Users could still crash the
machine by writing wrong commands to the exported registers. 


/Peter Åstrand <altic@lysator.liu.se>