From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3ff8d9adb83198885a3dfa6a02d4e5b4@cat-v.org> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:02:53 +0200 From: uriel@cat-v.org In-Reply-To: <775b8d190604180946s5dbd2fb4yd42bc42cc509274c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3ad69854-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > grafting shared libraries into plan9 will make presto go into a rage. I was going to say that the day Plan 9 gets shared libs I would shot myself. But given how many fans I have in 9fans that might have motivated someone into actually implementing shard libs. So maybe more persuasive is the fact that it would make boyd spin in his grave until the Earth would end up torn to pieces. > that's a great addition to the loader, and relatively easy to implement. I like that idea too, simple and clean, I can't see any downsides. uriel P.S.: Unsurprisingly http://kencc.sf.net is nowhere to be seen in the SoC site either... *sigh* hey, who knows, maybe in a couple of years more we will have a website and a tarball for kencc! > i think it is important to have an install floppy. or throw out machines > without CD drives. > > brucee > > On 4/19/06, Charles Forsyth wrote: >> > There were linkers written, long ago, that would extract only the code >> > from a library that was used by a program, and the binary got pretty >> >> we do that in inferno's 5l. richard miller implemented it originally in 5l >> but the changes vanished with the business unit and we redid it years later, >> and perhaps not in quite the same way (i don't know).