Shared Libraries: Unique to Suns??

[Guy Harris]

 >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?)

Yes.  S5R4's shared library implementation is derived from SunOS's
(and also includes the run-time dynamic linking routines "dlopen()",
"dlsym()", etc. that showed up in SunOS 4.1).