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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:14:22 +0000
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From: Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@googlemail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On 2/17/10, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> And another important feature of shared libraries is, that when
>> some lib is updated, importing programs dont have to be recompiled.
>> What's the Plan9 solution here ?
>
> We recompile the relevant executables.

also, plan 9 uses filesystems for many things that other systems use dlls for.
if there's a bug fixed in a 9p server, existing programs can still
talk to it without a recompile.

stu