From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 19 10:54:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E90A37B403; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:54:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.104.1.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.104.1]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06513; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B2F91FE.3C54D2FB@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:55:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysorg: sys/modules References: <200106151216.IAA22612@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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