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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!eur.nl!pk From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg) Subject: Re: shared libs in NetBSD-0.9? Message-ID: <1993Aug23.110852.6150@cs.few.eur.nl> Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl Reply-To: pk@cs.few.eur.nl Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam References: <CBpHIs.B21@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> <CGD.93Aug20130601@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> <CC7FK0.Mv2@cat-ufg.de> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 11:08:52 GMT Lines: 13 In <CC7FK0.Mv2@cat-ufg.de> wis@olly.cat-ufg.de (Bernd Wiserner) writes: >( SYSV shared-libs , SUN-shared-libs ? ) Do they need kernel-support ? Nothing besides the mmap() family of system calls. >I'm asking this because if there would be SUN-type shared libs another a.out , > exec,nlist ... >format change would be needed . No, it would not. There may just be a couple of cosmetic changes, or the odd extension or two, but nothing grossly incompatible. -pk