Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbWLRGuv (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:50:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753398AbWLRGuu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:50:50 -0500 Received: from fed1rmmtao12.cox.net ([68.230.241.27]:55827 "EHLO fed1rmmtao12.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753397AbWLRGuu (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:50:50 -0500 From: Junio C Hamano To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alexandre Oliva , Ricardo Galli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules References: <200612161927.13860.gallir@gmail.com> <17797.51337.364669.628160@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:50:47 -0800 In-Reply-To: <17797.51337.364669.628160@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (Paul Mackerras's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:45:29 +1100") Message-ID: <7vhcvt3dfc.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 20 Paul Mackerras writes: > Linus Torvalds writes: > >> Why do people think that using "ln" is _any_ different from using >> "mkisofs". Both create one file that contains multiple pieces. What's the >> difference - really? > > The difference - really - at least for static linking - is that "ln" > makes modifications to each piece to make them work together, and in > the case of a library, makes a selection of the parts of the library > as needed by the rest of the program. Excuse me, but are you two discussing "ld"? ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/