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From: fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com (Frank Mayhar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Shared Lib Question (ISC)
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
Message-ID: <1991May10.183605.22873@ladc.bull.com>
Date: 10 May 91 18:36:05 GMT
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In article <162@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
-> In article <276@rwing.UUCP> pat@rwing.UUCP (Pat Myrto) writes:
-> >I have noticed with interest the discussion going on regarding shared
-> >libraries.  However, what is obvious is that there are several kinds
-> >of shared libaries, all using some different scheme to operate.
-> It proves that the concept of shared libraries is not so simple.

The _concept_ is simple.  The _implementation_ is complex.  And has certain
problems that may be solved in a number of different ways, hence the
different shared library schemes.
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