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Date:      Sat, 25 Apr 1998 17:01:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Static vs. dynamic linking
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980425165739.24681B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804251741.MAA11634@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote:

> I would suggest that it is probably best not to link with 50
> shared libs, but with only one vs. 2-3, it is best to go all of
> the way, and link with all three shared. 

That reminds me...Microsoft Internet Explorer for Solaris comes
with a whopping 51 shared libraries.  They seem to be trying to
inflict all dimensions of DLL Hell (tm) on Unix as well...

-john


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