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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Shared libraries - info for 386BSD porting wanted
- Date: 12 Sep 92 10:23:27 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <veit.716293407@du9ds3>
- References: <peter.716225737@hilly>
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Keywords: shared 386bsd
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- In <peter.716225737@hilly> peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >Due to no response in the bsd group a couple of weeks ago, and the fact
- >I recently noticed that linux seems to have shared libraries I was
- >wondering if whoever knows *lots* about them can either (a) try to port
- >them or (b) help me port the implementaion across.
-
- >I realise that this will not be a trivial operation, but it is a starting
- >point.
-
- >At minimum, will someone tell me the "minimum working set" of linux source
- >files needed to understand how they are implemented. I take it there are
- >bits in exec() somewhere ? and the linker etc...
-
- >Thanks from a frustrated laptop owner without X386 due to lack of disk
- >space,
- >--
- >Peter Galbavy
- >Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
- >Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
-
- Another thread has been just started about that. Don't look at the Linux
- sources, the type of implementation is for a hacker's OS ;-), but not for the
- future. Linux uses (as most SysV systems) fixed addresses for shared
- libraries, which is, with one simple word *unacceptable*.
-
- Holger
-
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