Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:45:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@sunyit.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared libraries? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970827174356.1189B-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827201206.27457A-100000@server.local.sunyit.edu>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > This is a strange question/idea, > > Why is the standard C library like the code in string.h, stdio.h ect. in > shared libraries? if need be, the programer could change his code and > make a new library. .h files are header files, and don't contain "code", just declarations. > If most of the libraries were converted to a shared lib format wouldn't > that reduce memory and disk space requirements tremendously? > not only that, but complile times and exec times would soar, woudn't they? Most of the libraries are in shared format. All the standard C libs are in libc.so.* > you'll have to forgive me if this sounds niave, but i think it's a good > idea. > > ._________________________________________ __ _ > |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin for hire... > |perlsta@sunyit.edu > |http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~perlsta > : ---"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?" > ' ---"who was that masked admin?" > > > Tom Systems Support Uniserve
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