From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 01:18:10 -0500 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] python In-Reply-To: <4f34febc0701042014p7e13c951gc20bd80f44aa44b6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: fd09b5a0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 perhaps my assembly-language addled brain is just rebelling, but my snark= y reaction to this python thread is this: eh, while you're at it, why not just run the whole dynamicly-bound bit in a 386-emulator. that way, when movietunes3000 really wants some bit of linux, you can just run it in the emulator. or, Just Run Linux=E2=84=A2. my slightly more thoughtful reaction is, why does the operating system ne= ed to control the late-linking process? (python doesn't really need .so shared librari= es per se, does it?) to me this seems more like a linker problem than anything else. why not = write your own? you could write an rc script to gather the bits and waah laa. ... ooh, ro= n. i just invented linker scripts. ;-) - erik