Re: DLLs [OFFTOPIC]

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
18 Jul 1998 06:06:36 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980717181805.135A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> He may be. However, he was making a new application. The dl stuff
> was put in by Eric Youngdale to emulate what SunOs had done. If
> you make a new application, there is no reason to use DLLs.
>

Eh? There most certainly is. The ability to pull code at runtime can
be *incredibly* useful. Consider Perl and its dynamic modules, or
(near and dear to my heart) autofs.

-hpa

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