Re: [9fans] Shared Library Service?

["\"Nils O. Selåsdal\"" <NOS@Utel.no>]

LiteStar numnums wrote:
> Hello all,
> Had an odd idea: shared library service...
> Executables placed in,say, /lib/shsvc, would be executed with pipes 
> redirected to a mounted service (for now /n/shsvc).
> The file server at /n/shvc simply has files for each library loaded. An 
> application that wishes to use the service
> can simply open a file handle to /n/shvc/library & simply read/write to 
> the library file using a FastCGI/SCGI like
> protocol. The file service could do some simple checks on the data 
> (making sure it's actually protocol data, &c),
> and handle if a 'library' puked while working. This may not make as much 
> sense as I thought, since I am writing
> this after only two hours sleep...
> Cheers,
> --Stefan

This sounds more like a weird way of writing fileservers than "shared
libraries" - which I'd imagine should actually merge code/data into the
address space of the loading process.