andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (08/12/83)
"All the user-visible problems that have recently been mentioned with respect to shared libraries, for instance programs breaking when the library changes, are equally true of any library when the program is relinked, which can reasonably be expected of any program in general use or of medium or large size. Given this, it is hard to take these objections seriously." I disagree. There's BIG difference between a program breaking when someone recompiles it (and is giving it her attention, looking for modified behavior) and a program breaking when someone changes a distant library and the break is first noticed by an uninvolved user. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]