shared libraries, when to use them

[terryl at sail.LABS.TEK.COM]

In article <8448 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> >You can't, because SunOS doesn't have shared libraries.  (What it does
> >have is shared object files.  What's the difference?  You can link in
> >part of a library without linking in the rest, among other things.)
>
>Just out of curiosity, who *has* implemented shared libraries?
>("Multics" is, unless I misremember, not the correct answer.)


     Um, err, maybe VMS???? (Using the few neurons that are still functioning,
and MANY, MANY moons ago in another life....)


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