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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: Re: SHARED LIBRARIES - THE END
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 20:41:11 GMT
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In <C7nvDE.43y@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us (Kevin Lahey) writes:

[...]
>386BSD is great, and I sure appreciate all the effort everybody has put
>into it.  I just think that this shared library argument is sorta silly.
>Why throw out a reasonable, if sub-optimal, implementation of something
>we need?  If the Linux folks can upgrade their shared libraries, why
>can't we?

If the Linux shared libraries work as wonderfully as they claim they
do, why can't we use theirs?  (Or their approach?)  It's certainly not
perfect, but looks like it's better than anything that anybody has
taken the time to sit down and write so far.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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