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Re:OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of ... by cstrahan on Friday July 08, 2022 @06:14PM (#32028188)
LD_PRELOAD is also useful for working around hard-coded file paths inside of closed source (often commercial) software. This is how we make some closed source software work on NixOS, where we need a way to redirect file IO to corresponding paths in the NixOS file system (when those paths aren't the same as on typical distros).
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Re:OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of ... by egberts1 on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:16AM (#32035311)
That use of LD_PRELOAD by Nix is NOT a downside.

But it is not a good workaround for Nix thus making Nix a poor candidate for a reasonably secured production servers.

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