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From: terryl@sail.LABS.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: shared libraries, when to use them
Keywords: shared libraries .so
Message-ID: <9767@sail.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:38:44 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.163544.20234@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1991Jun18.050150.17149@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <8448@auspex.auspex.com>
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In article <8448@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
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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.)


     Um, err, maybe VMS???? (Using the few neurons that are still functioning,
and MANY, MANY moons ago in another life....)


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