Re: Copyrights

[Dave Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk> writes:]

>Would this mean that I could go away and implement a new shared library
>mechanism (if I was that much of a masochist) and not have to recompile all
>of my binaries?

Yes. The only restriction is that the second level shlib loader can have
only text, no data or BSS. Of course, nothing stops him from loading a
THIRD level loader....

In fact, one can conceive of the libraries converting to a different format,
but still being callable from existing a.out programs.

                                                Andy
Received on Thu Sep 29 10:53:58 1994