shared versus unshared libraries: there *is* a difference

[Andrew Klossner]

	"All the user-visible problems that have recently been
	mentioned with respect to shared libraries, for instance
	programs breaking when the library changes, are equally true of
	any library when the program is relinked, which can reasonably
	be expected of any program in general use or of medium or large
	size.  Given this, it is hard to take these objections
	seriously."

I disagree.  There's BIG difference between a program breaking when
someone recompiles it (and is giving it her attention, looking for
modified behavior) and a program breaking when someone changes a
distant library and the break is first noticed by an uninvolved user.

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)  [UUCP]
                       (andrew.tektronix at rand-relay)     [ARPA]