Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: unremovable files and possible fs corruption (2.1.123) | Date | 31 Oct 1998 19:43:41 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.199810310122.UAA00331@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote: >In message <71dep8$ari@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes: >+----- >| david parsons \bi/ Pushing the published kernel interfaces into a shared >| \/ library is creeping dangerously close to the NT wad-o- >| dll's approach. >+--->8 > >And what else is libc.so (aside from being one humongous DLL instead of a >bunch of smaller ones)?
But that's not the kernel interface, that's simply a collection of nice wrappers around the kernel interface.
Today I can write code that avoids libc altogether and continues to work, but if libc becomes the published interface, that guarantee is gone.
____ david parsons \bi/ Yes, I do have some code that links with \/ ld -m i386linux -o $PROG $OBJS
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