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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
Message-ID: <19239@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 27 Apr 91 00:43:23 GMT
References: <136@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <718@seqp4.UUCP> <1991Apr24.231048.2987@Think.COM> <148@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <148@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>UNIX was formed by intentionally removing many unnecessary features from
>Multics and other huge OSs.

The intention was to be simple and elegant, not spartan.  The solution
to the shared library dilema is to find a simple and elegant implementation
of shared libraries.  The problems I've always seen revolve about the
data requirements of shared libraries.  I've always taken this to mean that
the libraries were poorly designed, rather than that the concept of a shared
library is flawed.
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