Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:55:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysorg: sys/modules Message-ID: <3B2F91FE.3C54D2FB@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106152016001.83734-100000@besplex.bde.org> <200106151216.IAA22612@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > >This pushes us back to a single filename namespace, which is > >less than a wonderful idea. 8( > > We're always going to have that so long as we continue to expect > static linkage to work. A convincing, if brief, argument. Let's rip it out; it has always been a barrier to progress, not to mention the lack of a dlopen() in many programs which need one, simply because they are statically linked. I guess it would be nice if linkinging libraries against libraries, and the "ldd" comand worked everywhere, too. I'm sold. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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