Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??
Chris Calabrese
cjc at ulysses.att.com
Fri Mar 22 07:44:07 AEST 1991
allbery at ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
|sane at m.cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane):
|| I would like to know if shared libraries are a SunOs feature
|| or are available on most flavors of Unix (BSD, SysV)?
|
|System V has shared libraries, but you have to design your libraries for them
|--- they are *not* trivial to set up. I know little about the SunOS
|implementation, but it looks rather easier to use.
|
|(Has this been addressed in SVR4?)
sVr4 has both sVr3 and SunOS style shared libraries. It is assumed
that the SunOS style ones will be the standard, but I don't know of
any plans to get rid of the older ones. On the other hand, I'm
neither a sVr4 guru nor a shared lib guru.
Name: Christopher J. Calabrese
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