Can you elaborate? How is it super dangerous and in what ways could it wreck my system?

This thread seems to suggest it is pretty safe:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3146274/is-it-ok-to-use-dyld-library-path-on-mac-os-x-and-whats-the-dynamic-library-s

Is there a reason I should be suspicious of this thread?

And I certainly WILL come back and complain if my system starts to behave strangely. Not of course to complain that you (or anyone else) was to blame, but instead to enlighten anyone else in the future about potential problems of using this method.

Thanks for any insights you can provide,

-Tom

On Aug 8, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <kasperdanielhansen@gmail.com> wrote:

> Setting
>   DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
> is super dangerous and I would be highly suspicious of whoever told you to do that (in the sense that they don't really know how this works)   It has the potential to really wreck your system.  Especially if you set it in such a way that all GUI apps inherit it.  
> 
> Please don't come back here and complain if your system starts to behave strangely.  For example (as you see) sending weird messages in terminal windows.
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Tom Schoenemann <toms@indiana.edu> wrote:
> DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> 

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