Garrett Wollman said: > <<On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:07:32 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > If the object is to maximally 'share', > > The object, AIUI, is for ~username expansion to work in the shells > when the user stored somewhere defined by an external NSS module. I > don't believe that there is anything else in a (sane) shell that > cares. > It is a fallacy that EVERYTHING (e.g. libc) needs to be dynamically linked to support that feature. A single, self contained library that might even be sparse WRT memory isn't going to hurt much.
A compromise that supports both a 'feature' and performance seems to be appropriate. Making everything shared (with the sparse allocation of .data, and .text somewhat) to implement a specific feature is certainly wasteful. All or nothing isn't the optimal answer here. John _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
