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From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding)
Subject: How do shared libs work?
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How are shared libs implemented?  I'm curious - a thumbnail sketch would
suffice.  I assume that the libraries are mapped into memory - how
does the linking occur - dynamically?  Is the linking symbolic?  Thanks
in advance.