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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:24:22 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 18 Apr 97 at 16:39) Pierre Phaneuf said:

> > > I think we should put this off a little, as the Right Way to do DLL
> > > loaders is in the kernel or close to it, so it can manage multiple
> > > programs using the same DLL (not loading the same stuff multiple times).
> > Hmm... in case of DOS it's rather in EMM386 (or similar pmode server)
> > hands...
> 
> Huh? EMM386 isn't a pmode server AFAIK... Well, not a DPMI server at
> least. The code for a DLL loader should be at the very same place the code
Wrong. In OD EMM386 replaces both HIMEM.SYS (thus it is a pmode server) and a 
DPMI 1.0 server (although it is a bit buggy - it doesn't work with DJGPP)

> to load .EXE files is. Probably in the DOS kernel. In Linux, the code to
That would be the best solution *if* the kernel works in Pmode.

> load ELF binaries, both executables and shared libraries (both cases shares
> code) is in the same module.
Exactly.
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