Shared Lib Question (ISC)

John F Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Wed May 15 00:54:47 AEST 1991


In article <184 at titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>The problem is that NO OS support shared libraries right, perhaps because
>there is no way to do so.

This is trivially false, and the conclusion you reached along with it.

>>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.

Oh, so you don't like any shared library because it has to use things
that you don't like?  And this is the basis for your proof that NO OS
can "support shared libraries right."

Well, boyo, it's off to the KILL file for you!
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