On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:46:49 -0400 James Carlson wrote: > Roland Mainz writes: > > I consider it more or less "public" (note that I am always getting the > > official Sun stabilty terminology wrong - April may correct me if I am > > causing havic again... :-) ) because the API is stable since many many > > years and will remain stable as far as I can see into the future.
> It's not just a matter of whether it will change, but a question of > whether anyone else should be using the library, and, if so, where > those other consumers are. ast ksh93 -lcmd is a different flavor library its most common usage would be implicit runtime linking by ksh for access to the b_xxx builtins rather than explicit compile time linkage even applications that explicitly link with -lshell would most likely only access -lcmd via the implicit ksh93 builtin mechanism btw, the ast -ldll library allows ksh93 to refer to -lcmd as "the cmd plugin named ``cmd''" on all architectures -- it maps architecure neutral names like "cmd" to architecture specific shared lib / dll names and directory placement -- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --
