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Xref: sserve comp.unix.osf.misc:39 comp.unix.bsd:8381 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com!hermi From: hermi@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Harminder Singh) Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Shared library papers for OSF1 Keywords: OSF1, shared libs, ftp Message-ID: <184361@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 20 Nov 92 01:36:46 GMT References: <1992Nov11.040846.29546@citec.oz.au> <1992Nov17.154746.10898@rdg.dec.com> Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View Lines: 25 In article <1992Nov17.154746.10898@rdg.dec.com> franzoni@sixter.var.dec.com (Mauro Franzoni) writes: >|> I'm after papers on OSF1 shared libraries. I'm looking at >|> implementing shared libraries on 386bsd as an experiment (well as a lark) >|> and am already familiar with the SVR4/SunOS way. Rumour has it that OSF has >|> an altogether nicer method. Does anybody know where I can ftp some suitable >|> papers from? > >Not a pointer to paper ... but I'd go with memory mapped files. The 1991 Dallas Winter Usenix Conference proceedings contains a paper entitled "Program Loading in OSF/1" which we (Larry Allen, Harminder Singh, Kevin Wallace and Melanie Weaver) presented on OSF/1 shared libraries. This describes the shared library scheme employed in quite some detail. If you are looking for details of the implementation you want to get hold of an OSF/1 documentation set (there is a full chapter on the loader and shared library internals in one of the books, but you may require an OSF/1 source licence for that). -- Harminder Singh Snail mail: Pyramid Technology Email : hermi@pyramid.com Mailstop SJ2-2-37, Voice : (408) 428-7418 3860 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95134.