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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: shared libraries, when to use them
Keywords: shared libraries .so
Message-ID: <8448@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 00:00:03 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.163544.20234@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1991Jun18.050150.17149@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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 >You can't, because SunOS doesn't have shared libraries.  (What it does
 >have is shared object files.  What's the difference?  You can link in
 >part of a library without linking in the rest, among other things.)

Just out of curiosity, who *has* implemented shared libraries?
("Multics" is, unless I misremember, not the correct answer.)