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From: gew@dnlunx.UUCP (Weijers G.A.H.)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Shared libraries (Was: Re: Big Programs Hurt Performance)
Message-ID: <264@dnlunx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 04:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 04:27:15 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 03:37:12 EDT
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Organization: Dr Neher Laboratory (PTT)
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Summary: multiple versions of shared libs
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In article <28957@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> Of course, this requires you to keep old versions of the library around, but
> you can't have everything; if this causes a disk-space problem, you might have
> to link with an unshared version of the library.

How can this solve the disk space problem? You'll have *at*least* one
copy of the old version around, linked to the unconverted application,
and possibly many copies.
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