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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!eng.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!ymir.cs.umass.edu!rcfnews.cs.umass.edu!hagan From: hagan@freya.cs.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END Date: 24 May 93 11:55:02 Organization: /users/users3/vis/hagan/.organization Lines: 27 Message-ID: <HAGAN.93May24115502@freya.cs.umass.edu> References: <PC123.93May22195506@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: freya.cs.umass.edu In-reply-to: pc123@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of Sat, 22 May 1993 18:55:10 GMT Since beginning the shared library project I have received mailboxes full of flames every day. If you don't like my way of doing shared the few, the loud, the ... I find it horribly dissapointing that there are enough people here, on the net that discourage people from coming up with solutions to existing problems (they may not the be optimal solution, but, they are often better than none). I personally, was considering getting into the shared library project, or porting the linux method here (i am sorry, i am not that familiar as of yet as to the implementation of BSD shared libraries). What I wanted was *something* that worked reliably, no matter how fast/slow/whatever, as i cannot fit a non shared library system on my harddrive, and X. I currenly use linux because of this (it fits where no other unix will). Perhaps the people who insist that everything be done perfectly the first time should consider spending their time writing code instead of writing flames. Also, if there is an implementation that you don't like: WRITE YOUR OWN. let those who *want* functionality regardless of speed/cost/overhead/whatever else get it without being bitched at. I really hope that this isn't indicative of the 386BSD crowd as a whole. -- craig