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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Subject: Re: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END Message-ID: <michaelv.739744871@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1993May23.003623.24102@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1tr05o$qaa@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1993May24.225014.23425@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C7nvDE.43y@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 20:41:11 GMT Lines: 19 In <C7nvDE.43y@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us (Kevin Lahey) writes: [...] >386BSD is great, and I sure appreciate all the effort everybody has put >into it. I just think that this shared library argument is sorta silly. >Why throw out a reasonable, if sub-optimal, implementation of something >we need? If the Linux folks can upgrade their shared libraries, why >can't we? If the Linux shared libraries work as wonderfully as they claim they do, why can't we use theirs? (Or their approach?) It's certainly not perfect, but looks like it's better than anything that anybody has taken the time to sit down and write so far. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------