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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <6830@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 19:03:49 GMT
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>sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries.  It is assumed
>that the SunOS style ones will be the standard,

Yes, given that the S5R4 ABI's all depend on dynamic linking to
SunOS-style shared libraries....

>but I don't know of any plans to get rid of the older ones.

In order run binaries linked with them, presumably.