From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory & paging Cc: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> From: Richard Uhtenwoldt To: Ronald G Minnich Message-Id: Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 06:32:58 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 51bab318-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Geoff Collyer: > > Given that degree of sharing, the low cost of RAM, and the increase in > > OS complexity, slowness and insecurity in the implementations of > > dynamic libraries that I've seen, I don't see a need for dynamic > > libraries. Ron Minnich >and in the worst case you'll end up where GNU is now, with symbol >versioning, 21 different versions of opendir in glibc, and so on an so on. >Watching a simple 'ls' do hundreds of symbol fixups is really >enlightening. Especially when so many of them are for the same symbol with >slight variations on the name. My simple, formerly working, libc-based >private name spaces are still totally hosed due to this nonsense. Totally hosed because Linux moved from libc5 to glibc? If so, you should have tried to fight the move. Very little chance you could have influenced *all* Linux users to stay with libc5, but you easily could have influenced *me* to do so --you would have had to write only one paragraph-- and probably a few hundred other Linux users, at least for a year or 2 or 3, till the apps start not working with libc5. I didn't know about your work on private namespaces for Linux until about 3-6 months ago. Can't recall exactly when. I think I saw an announce on Slashdot and short afterward you mentioned it here. I subscribed to 9fans to find out about 9-coolness that gets added to Linux and *BSD. Where on the Net could I have found out earlier about your Linux work?