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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:14565 comp.os.linux.misc:30065 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux) Date: 19 Nov 1994 17:08:09 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3albdp$rcf@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <39tu2u$o8r@styx.uwa.edu.au> <3a4a2o$d7m@j51.com> <3ag7cn$lba@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3ai3oc$ffm@news.nynexst.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <3ai3oc$ffm@news.nynexst.com>, H.J. Lu <hjl@nynexst.com> wrote: >Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: H.J.> [ If you care about the software development, maybe Linux has an >: What basis do you use for this statement? > >I can tell it from my experiences. If you don't believe, try it >yourself. C'mon H.J. That's flame-bait, pure and simple. I could say the exact opposite and it would have just as much weight as your statement. Now, Sean and Brandon's followup articles (more specifically Sean's) gave better details of why ELF is better, but these appear to be a moot point for most developers since the shlib implementation is already done in both Free/NetBSD and Linux. What does ELF buy me (generic non-shlib implementor) that the current implementation in FreeBSD doesn't have? The ELF shlib implementation is probably orders of magnitude easier to use than the old Linux implementation, but easy to use shared libraries have been the norm in the BSD's. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD dude and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.