jhl@tty3b.UUCP ("Jonathon Luers" 97320) (11/12/84)
[Is this line necessary?] Several months (a year?) ago, when I had time to read unix-wizards regularly, I remember there was a long-running discussion about the merits of Shared Libraries. As I recall, the idea was to keep useful libraries (such as stdio, etc.) in core, to eliminate the need to keep copies on disk in every object file that used them. By some scheme, the image would be mapped at load time over the global memory segment which contained the referenced routines. Now, I don't want to resurrect a long-dead issue, but I was hoping that someone out there might have archived the discussion, or perhaps someone with total recall could replay some of the highlights for me. I'm more interested in general arguments than specific implementations proposed. In particular, I'm trying to remember the problem with updates and multiple versions. Thanks to anyone who can help. Jon Luers AT&T Teletype Corp. ihnp4!tty3b!jhl