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- Submitted-by: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com (Donald Lewine)
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- In article <1992Feb12.221447.2080@uunet.uu.net>, cmr@cvedc.prime.com (Chesley Reyburn) writes:
- > This thing does dynamic, on-the-fly, loading of user supplied sourca
- > modules during run-time. Is this behaviour that POSIX will support?
- > If so which POSIX standard will specify it? If not, why are you people
- > wasting my time :-> ?
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- POSIX does not specify dynamic linking and is not likely to do so.
- POSIX covers the source level view of the computer. There is no
- need (as far as POSIX is concerned) to ever compile or link anything.
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- One could implement POSIX using a very fast and very smart cockroach.
- As long as the source program produces the right output the cockroach
- is POSIX conforming.
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- Clearly, POSIX allows for systems which do use compilers and linkers,
- but it does not require that they work in any particular way.
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