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From: krey@ira.uka.de (Andreas Krey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Fundamental defect of the concept of shared libraries
Keywords: ISC i386 shared libraries
Message-ID: <1991May16.124734.23088@ira.uka.de>
Date: 16 May 91 12:47:34 GMT
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In article <197@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>, mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
[about shared libraries, not always completely correct]
|> 
|> I hope you can now understand how complex the shared library is.
|> 
|> The fundamental solution is, of course, not to have shared libraries.
|> 
|> 						Masataka Ohta

We now all see how complex computers are.

The fundamental solution is, of course, not to have computers.


And, why do you share text pages of statically linked programs? Seems to
be a similar problem and unnecessarily complicating operating systems.
Do you ever rum more than one instance of any program at one?

-- 
Andy