[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Apr 12 21:46:56 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 18:35 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:24, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> >
> > The statements you made above are all true.  The result of the whole mess
> > is that the user of the dll may end up (depending upon the order things are
> > loaded, (note your mention of he dllcache)accessing a dll which is
> > incompatible with the calls being made.  You actually can get yourself into
> > the same mess with shared objects, but the UNIX approach helps you avoid
> > getting the a mismatched copy.
> >
> And the whole of this sub-thread arose from a statement that linux is plagued 
> by shared code, whereas windows is not.
> 
Exactly!  and the discussion has just shown the fallacy of that claim.
Multiple versions that are path dependent, as well as _dllcache
dependent.  LOL

> Anne
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