Shared libraries

[Masataka Ohta]

In article <1991Apr24.231048.2987 at Think.COM>
	barmar at think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>In article <718 at seqp4.UUCP> jdarcy at seqp4.ORG (Jeff d'Arcy) writes:
>>  Do you really think so many skilled and knowledgeable
>>OS developers would implement shared libraries if they weren't worth it?

>What I want to know is why it has taken so long for them to rediscover
>shared libraries.  Multics, the predecessor to Unix, was using
>dynamically-linked, shared libraries in the 60's.

UNIX was formed by intentionally removing many unnecessary features from
Multics and other huge OSs.

>(Multics does all dynamic
>linking by indirecting through pointers with a special trap bit set

If you want shared libraries, use Multics. Don't change UNIX to Multics.

						Masataka Ohta