Re: open failed: illegal insecure pathname

Rainer Beushausen wrote:
Dave (from the UK) wrote:

Some may recall the hassles I have with Mathematica on Solaris using
tons of CPU time which was caused by a change in Solaris 10 which I
understand will be patched at some point.

Casper *** wrote a bit of library code which I preloaded to change the
behavior of select. This I saved as select_preload.so

BUT

*Sometimes* Mathematical will fail to load the library, coming up with
this message in is "Error Console".

ld.so.1: prtconf: warning: /usr/lib/sparcv9/select_preload.so: open
failed: illegal insecure pathname


problem here is prtconf which is actually a setgid executable (64-bit
version):

ls -l /usr/sbin/sparcv9/prtconf

But why is prtconf being called - I can't believe Mathematica will want to do that.



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