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- From: eric@tantalus.dell.com (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Shared libraries - info for 386BSD porting wanted
- Keywords: shared 386bsd
- Message-ID: <3583@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 13:22:17 GMT
- References: <peter.716225737@hilly> <veit.716293407@du9ds3>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
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- In article <veit.716293407@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes:
- >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*.
-
- Huh? Let me see, BSD does not have shared libraries, and Linux, like
- SysV uses fixed addresses... Exactly what OS does have acceptable sharable
- libraries? When you say "unacceptable", it almost sounds like you will
- refuse to use them under linux. Is this really the case?
-
- Now that the user address space has been increased to 3 Gb, what
- possible difference could it make to you whether the shared library has
- fixed addresses or not? The only drawback that I know of is that some
- minor deity needs to decide which libraries get what addresses.
-
- --
- Eric Youngdale
- eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil
-