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Joe Darcy: Purging LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Joe Darcy talks about one of my favorite annoyances in Purging LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

Java developers are familiar with dynamic linking. Class files are a kind of intermediate format with symbolic references. At runtime, a class loader will
load, link, and initialize new types as needed. Typically the full classpath a class loader uses for searching will have several logically distinct sub components, including the boot classpath, endorsed standards, extension directories, and the user-specified classpath...

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