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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do shared libs work?
Date: 29 Jun 1995 12:12:45 +0200
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Michael Harding <mvh@netcom.com> wrote:
>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.
>
yes. yes. yes.
(Don't know much more though. :)
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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