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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Message-ID: <6835@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 19:25:46 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.073109.30717@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar21.035115.21842@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >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?)

Yes.  S5R4's shared library implementation is derived from SunOS's
(and also includes the run-time dynamic linking routines "dlopen()",
"dlsym()", etc. that showed up in SunOS 4.1).