Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: so, you want to use a shared library?
Keywords: don't try this at home, folks
Message-ID: <3794@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 30 Jul 90 17:55:46 GMT
References: <61580@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Will these (sysV style?) shared libraries be changing?  Are we poor
>customers stuck until/if IRIX becomes sysV R4 based?  What about then?

The S5R4 shared library mechanism is based on the SunOS one; the
problems you cite with the S5R3 shared library mechanism are part of the
reason Sun didn't go with something like that (and perhaps part of the
reason why AT&T went with the SunOS scheme for S5R4).

I would certainly *hope* the folks doing MIPS port(s?) of S5R4 don't
abandon those advantages; if they don't, S5R4 should make life more
pleasant.