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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!beta.lanl.gov!crs From: crs@beta.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Dynloading and FBSD2.? Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:27:02 GMT Organization: Los Alamos Natn'l Laboratory Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3rhirm$akf@newshost.lanl.gov> References: <3qn4eq$7m5@shore.shore.net> <3qngvu$aet@news.nynexst.com> <3qve99$ioq@helena.MT.net> <87sppopmr7.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: beta.lanl.gov In article <87sppopmr7.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com>, Robert Sanders <rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com> wrote: = On 5 Jun 1995 17:18:33 GMT, nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) said: = = >> But in my opinion, the SunOS style dynamic link/load is too weak. = >> The ELF one is much much better. = = > You care to give a basis for your opinions, other than 'Linux uses ELF = > therefore it must be better'? = = I won't enter into this argument other than to say that a more = accurate statement would be 'Linux uses ELF because the developers = (notably including H.J. Lu, the person being challenged) thought ELF ^^^^^^^ = was better'. I, too, "won't enter into this argument" except to say this: Wouldn't it also follow, then, that the approach used in FreeBSD (or NetBSD or ...) *also* was used because "the developers thought [it] was better"? My point, and I do have one, is this. It is pretty obvious that each implementation uses what its developers *though* was better. If one is going to purport to say to the rest of us that this or that *is* better, one would hope that the supporter of whatever is being recommended would (and could) tell us *why* it is *thought* to be better. Thus, the request: = > You care to give a basis for your opinions, other than 'Linux = > uses ELF therefore it must be better'? is a valid one. If someone asks about something and another replies with an opinion about that something, wouldn't it be much more helpful to state the basis for that opinion? I should, perhaps, mention that implicit in all claims of "thought X was better" is that "better" means within the constraints with which one must work. -- Best, Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!" crs@lanl.gov