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> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:01:17PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:

>> Better to have the contents accessible via a separate stream, in the
>> same namespace.  Fix it once in the kernel vs. fix it in umpteen
>> apps.

> This is ridiculous.  We have shared libraries, 99% of applications
> manage to use libc for example --- this isn't that different.

  Yes if that was the case then programs wouldn't brake if libc and
  its API was fixed. Sadly, I think it isn't.

  ~S


>   --cw

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