Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca> writes:
|> Linus Torvalds writes:
|> >
|> > On 4 Oct 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
|> > >
|> > > First what user space really wants is the MAP_COPY. Which is
|> > > MAP_PRIVATE with the guarantee that they don't see anyone else's changes.
|> >
|> > Which is a completely idiotic idea, and which is only just another
|> > example of how absolutely and stunningly _stupid_ Hurd is.
|>
|> Indeed. If you're updated a shared library, why not *create a new
|> file* and then rename it?!? That lets running programmes work fine,
|> and new programmes will get the new library. Also, the following
|> construct makes a lot of sense:
|> ld -shared -o libfred.so *.o || mv libfred.so /usr/local/lib
^^
That || should be &&, otherwise you are doing exactly the opposite of what
you want.
Andreas.
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