python stripping LD_LIBRARY_PATH?

[Martin v. Loewis]

Jeff Shipman - SysProg <jeff at nmt.edu> writes:

> Why is python stripping out this environment variable?

Most likely, it is not Python which strips this out, but the dynamic
linker (/lib/ld-linux.so.1) will. It does so if the effective and the
real user id are different (likewise for group ids); see
sysdeps/generic/enbl-secure.c of the glibc sources.

Regards,
Martin