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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: John Naylor <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC] building postgres with meson
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 19:04:27 -0400
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I wrote:
> I recall that we figured out awhile ago that the environment gets trimmed
> when make (or whatever) executes some command via the shell; seemingly,
> Apple has decided that /bin/sh is a security-critical program that mustn't
> be run with a non-default DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Dunno if that helps you
> find where the damage is done exactly.

BTW, here's the evidence for this theory:

[tgl@pro ~]$ cat checkenv.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  char *pth = getenv("DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH");

  if (pth)
    printf("DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH = %s\n", pth);
  else
    printf("DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset\n");

  return 0;
}
[tgl@pro ~]$ gcc checkenv.c
[tgl@pro ~]$ ./a.out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset
[tgl@pro ~]$ export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/Users/tgl/pginstall/lib
[tgl@pro ~]$ ./a.out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH = /Users/tgl/pginstall/lib
[tgl@pro ~]$ sh -c ./a.out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset
[tgl@pro ~]$ ./a.out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH = /Users/tgl/pginstall/lib
[tgl@pro ~]$ bash -c ./a.out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is unset

You have to check the environment using an "unprivileged" program.
If you try to examine the environment using, say, "env", you will get
very misleading results.  AFAICT, /usr/bin/env is *also* considered
security-critical, because I cannot get it to ever report that
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is set.

Hmm ... /usr/bin/perl seems to act the same way.  It can see
ENV{'PATH'} but not ENV{'DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH'}.

This may indicate that they've applied this policy on a blanket
basis to everything in /bin and /usr/bin (and other system
directories, maybe), rather than singling out the shell.

			regards, tom lane

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