[vbox-dev] Loading external libraries in 2.0.4

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday 30 October 2008, James Lucas wrote:
> Putting the path into /etc/ld.so.conf and running ldconfig seems to
> work. Would still be interested in why LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't work
> anymore.

It does not work because the VirtualBox binaries are now setuid root.
VirtualBox, VBoxSDL, VBoxHeadless and so on are small stubs running
setuid root. After doing several consistency checks and after opening
the handle to kernel driver, the privileges are dropped. LD_LIBRARY_PATH
does not work with setuid root binaries.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    Sun Microsystems    http://www.sun.com/
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