Shared Lib Question (ISC)

Masataka Ohta mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
Mon May 13 18:28:26 AEST 1991


In article <7762 at auspex.auspex.com>
	guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>>Apparently, you haven't used many OSes. Most OSes do many things badly.
>
>Irrelevant.  I said that different OSes provide various functions in
>different fashions, which means that the fact that different OSes
>implement shared libraries isn't any sort of valid argument against
>shared libraries; your statement doesn't have any relevance to that.

The problem is that NO OS support shared libraries right, perhaps because
there is no way to do so.

>>Moreover, there seems to be no right implementation of shared libraries, so
>>far.

>OK, so what would you consider a "right" implementation of them?  

Do you consider there is a "right" one?

>What
>don't you like about, say, Multics's implementation, or VMS's, or
>Aegis's, or SunOS 4.x/S5R4's, or OSF/1's, or....?

Indirect jumps and accompanied process private data for the jump table.

						Masataka Ohta



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