Trim LD_LIBRARY_PATH on startup

Author: nhooyr

ci/build/code-server.sh

@@ -5,21 +5,22 @@
 
 # More complicated than readlink -f or realpath to support macOS.
 # See https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1537
-bin_dir() {
+root_dir() {
   # We read the symlink, which may be relative from $0.
   dst="$(readlink "$0")"
   # We cd into the $0 directory.
   cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit 1
-  # Now we can cd into the dst directory.
-  cd "$(dirname "$dst")" || exit 1
-  # Finally we use pwd -P to print the absolute path of the directory of $dst.
+  # Now we can cd into the directory above the dst directory which is the root
+  # of the release.
+  cd "$(dirname "$dst")/.." || exit 1
+  # Finally we use pwd -P to print the absolute path the root.
   pwd -P || exit 1
 }
 
-BIN_DIR=$(bin_dir)
+ROOT="$(root_dir)"
 if [ "$(uname)" = "Linux" ]; then
-  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$BIN_DIR/../lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 elif [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]; then
-  export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$BIN_DIR/../lib${DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH+:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
+  export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$ROOT/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 fi
-exec "$BIN_DIR/../lib/node" "$BIN_DIR/.." "$@"
+exec "$ROOT/lib/node" "$ROOT" "$@"

src/node/entry.ts

@@ -126,7 +126,25 @@ const main = async (cliArgs: Args): Promise<void> => {
   }
 }
 
+function trimLDLibraryPath(): void {
+  let ldVar: string
+  if (process.platform === "linux") {
+    ldVar = "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+  } else if (process.platform === "darwin") {
+    ldVar = "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+  } else {
+    return
+  }
+
+  // Removes the leading path added by ./ci/build/code-server.sh to use our bundled
+  // dynamic libraries. See ci/build/build-standalone-release.sh
+  // This is required to avoid child processes using our bundled libraries.
+  process.env[ldVar] = process.env[ldVar]?.replace(path.dirname(process.execPath) + ":", "")
+}
+
 async function entry(): Promise<void> {
+  trimLDLibraryPath()
+
   const tryParse = async (): Promise<Args> => {
     try {
       let args = parse(process.argv.slice(2))