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From: DN5@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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Subject: Shared libraries
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Date: 18 Jan 90 15:03:08 GMT
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Does anybody know any references explaining how shared libraries could
be implemented.  Most C programs under unix contain much of the standard
i/o libraries, and would benefit by sharing this code amongst several
processes.  While the savings woundn't be much for JUST the standard
i/o libraries, with the coming of larger and larger libraries to support
the new user-interface models, these libraries are getting bigger and
bigger.

I'm sure that there are many papers and books on the subject, but I haven't
found anything specific (all the ones I've found describe the process so
generally it really doesn't help).

                       D. Jay Newman
                       dn5@psuvm.psu.edu