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From: cjc@ulysses.att.com (Chris Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
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Date: 21 Mar 91 21:44:07 GMT
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allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
|sane@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane):
|| I would like to know if shared libraries are a SunOs feature 
|| or are available on most flavors of Unix (BSD, SysV)?
|
|System V has shared libraries, but you have to design your libraries for them
|--- they are *not* trivial to set up.  I know little about the SunOS
|implementation, but it looks rather easier to use.
|
|(Has this been addressed in SVR4?)

sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries.  It is assumed
that the SunOS style ones will be the standard, but I don't know of
any plans to get rid of the older ones.  On the other hand, I'm
neither a sVr4 guru nor a shared lib guru.

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