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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing)
Message-ID: <7246@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 22:09:40 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Shared libraries *do* have a place in standard Unix.  And not just for
>gigabyte GUIs... the standard C library is a shared library in V.3, which cuts
>the size of the system down by quite a bit.  I assume this has been continued
>into V.4.

Improved in V.4, actually; when you link a program, you get shared
libraries if they exist, unless you ask *not* to get them, unlike V.3
where you have to explicitly ask for the shared version when you link
(if you don't have to on your system, somebody changed it from the way
AT&T did it).