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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: libraries
Summary: Not quite.  You still need a name cache.
Message-ID: <10376@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 25 Dec 88 16:14:59 GMT
References: <14946@mimsy.UUCP> <1269@nusdhub.UUCP> <15080@mimsy.UUCP> <10211@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <15106@mimsy.UUCP> <4468@xenna.Encore.COM
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <4468@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:
>It seems to me the whole point is that I can create a file __.SYMDEF
>in my object directory and have ld exploit it if it's there, at which
>point almost all the complaints become moot.

Not quite the complete solution.  You would need a name cache [ thanks
Chris for pointing out how wonderful these are ... ] to reduce the
file name lookup overhead.  Large directories are VERY inefficient to
access.  Frequent lookups in large directories even more so.
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