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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared libraries
Message-ID: <1991May04.025252.3370@kithrup.COM>
Date: 4 May 91 02:52:52 GMT
References: <5152f9e6.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
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In article <5152f9e6.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> goykhman_a@apollo.HP.COM (Alex Goykhman) writes:
[a bunch of stuff showing ignorance of issues involved in shared libraries]
>Mapping is trivial, trapping is machine-dependent, and you can't change it
>anyway, so it must take a lot of imagination to produce an implementation
>of shared libraries that would not be simple and elegant.

Really?

How do you make sure that a user can substitute in his/her own version of, 
say, malloc, and make sure that all of the routines in the shared library 
use it?

Where do you put the library's data?

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