[Flame Bait] - Linux as bloatware

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Tue Apr 11 17:35:58 UTC 2006


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.

Anne
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