From: henry.r.bent@gmail.com (Henry Bent)
Subject: [TUHS] shared objects in Unix
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:01:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBdWS6W0om+4HeSHmNSZb-NQEhZyzmFWyS3EmN=EhmXzOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VQvhHKemfOOvVFSu9K+Go1LB5e2Ck214KdLJvtE--z8Hg@mail.gmail.com>
On 29 March 2018 at 17:37, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the history of shared objects on Unix? When did they first
> appear, and with what object/executable file format? The a.out ZMAGIC
> format doesn't seem to support them. I don't recall if COFF does.
>
IRIX 4 had COFF shared libraries, barely. The OS included libc_s, libgl_s,
and maybe one or two other things. They were very difficult and
time-consuming to create, and if you had external dependencies then things
were even worse.
-Henry
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2018-03-29 21:37 Paul Winalski
2018-03-29 22:01 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2018-03-29 22:26 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-29 23:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-29 23:22 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-29 23:24 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30 0:22 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 1:46 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30 4:28 ` Clem cole
2018-03-30 20:52 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-30 22:42 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 23:29 ` Paul Winalski
2018-04-03 15:49 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-03-30 1:20 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-03-30 0:40 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-30 1:35 ` Charles H. Sauer
2018-03-30 2:10 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-30 2:34 ` Charles H. Sauer
2018-03-30 3:04 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-30 20:33 ` Charles H Sauer
2018-03-30 3:00 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-30 21:53 ` Steve Johnson
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