questions on dynamic linking on SunOS

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sun Sep 17 05:27:22 AEST 1989


>This wouldn't work because you wouldn't be able to write to the shared
>library that your program includes, because it's currently loaded
>in memory (sort of like "Text file busy").

Wanna bet?  You *can* write to a SunOS shared library that's mapped into
memory - I know, I've done it, although not deliberately.  (Hint: don't
assume the SunOS shared library mechanism is derived from the S5R3 one -
it's not.  The S5R4 one is derived from the SunOS one, though....)



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