ld.so fails to read a pathname in LD_PRELOAD that contains a ':' colon

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Customer is attempting to set a library in LD_PRELOAD from a directory that has colon's in it's name.
  • ld.so fails with an error similar to:
ERROR: ld.so: object 'XXXX' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • man-pages

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