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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:05:33 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shared Object (library) semantics
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:57:00PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
>A double-barreled question.
>First, would someone please point me toward some general [U[?[Li]?nix 
>discussions.  Answers to this may well take care of the second.
>Given that the Cygwin pages are a likely focal point for Windows users 
>just finding their way around *nix, a pointer from the web page such as 
>"the Cygwin list isn't really a good place for general *nix questions.   
>Some better places for those are <a></a> and <a></a>.

The cygwin list isn't a really good place for general *nix questions but
lets start a nice long thread on where the best place for general *nix
questions might be.  Nyuh uh.

Just typing "general unix questions" into google should be more than
enough to get you started.

>Second, where can I read up on the design semantics of *nix "shared 
>object"  (.so) libraries, and how they differ from M$ .dll's?

"*nix" shared libraries have various flavors so the question is too
broad.  However, linux and many other unix variants use the ELF format
for their executables/shared libraries.  So, doing a google search
for "dll ELF differences" would probably be instructive.
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