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From: fkittred@bbn.com (Fletcher Kittredge)
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Subject: Re: shared libraries, when to use them (Really OSF/1 Program Loader)
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Date: 21 Jun 91 12:28:41 GMT
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In article <8448@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> >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.)

In the Proceedings of this year's Winter Usenix, the OSF people presented
a paper called "The OSF/1 Program Loader".  I have been playing with
the same, and it seems to satisfy the requirements for real shared libraries.

In the OSF/1 module, you build libraries to explictly export one or
more "packages". At run time, you load the "packages" you need from the
libraries.

check it out...

regards,
fletcher
Fletcher Kittredge
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