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SubjectRe: NSS and glibc
On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 1998 at 02:44:47AM +0100, Roger Espel Llima wrote:
> > And why does NSS pull another copy of glibc anyway? Seems like a rather
> > convoluted step to take, so if it's doing it, there has to be some good
> > reason.
>
> The NSS libraries are shared libraries and due to the modular nature of NSS
> have to be. And those libraries again need libc, so a shared copy of it
> will be loaded.
>
> Ralf

Isn't the whole point of _shared_ libraries that one copy will do for all
those who need the library?

-=- James Mastros


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