Re: broken by the FPATH environment variable defined by bash / lmod

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <llua@xxxxxxx> 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.

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