sgid flag and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Marcus Brinkmann]

Hi,

xterm is 

-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     utmp       218920 Aug 24 05:45 /bin/X11/xterm

and I can run it as a user without special privileges, which means
that the linker does honor the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

I tried a suid xterm binary (owned by root), and this doesn't work.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is be ignored.

It doesn't seem to be right that the variable is not ignored for
a sgid binary, although the behaviour is certainly convenient. :)
Same for rxvt etc.  Am I correct that this is a bug?

Thanks,
Marcus