Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 1998 23:12:24 -0500 (EST) | From | James Mastros <> | Subject | Re: NSS and glibc |
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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?
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