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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <1991Mar23.073340.9812@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 91 07:33:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.073109.30717@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar21.035115.21842@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1991Mar21.035115.21842@NCoast.ORG>, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
> As quoted from <1991Mar16.073109.30717@m.cs.uiuc.edu> by 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)?
> +---------------

SunOS doesn't have shared libraries - yet.  (As of 4.1, that being the
latest I've worked on to any extent.)  It does have shared objects;
they are not libraries except in the broad sense of the term.  When
ld.so brings in a .so file, you get the whole thing....

Vanilla 4.3BSD does not have anything of the sort.  I don't know about
more recent versions (eg, 4.3-tahoe, 4.3-Reno...).

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