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Re: OSKit and processes



Johan Rydberg <johan.rydberg@netinsight.se> writes:

> The big problem from my point of view is the linking, both normal
> and with shared libraries. 
> 
> Shared libraries in a SASOS get very ugly. If the OS is a strict
> SASOS, then the data segment also must be shared (and we all know
> the problems with this). Have you seen any solutions for this
> problem in a strict-SASOS ?

Have a look at this paper from the Mungi people: Luke Deller, Gernot
Heiser: ``Linking Programs in a Single Address Space''
<URL:http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~disy/papers/Deller_Heiser_99/paper.ps.gz>.
My impression from this paper is that the problem of shared libraries
in SASOSs is well-understood.

Michael
-- 
hohmuth@innocent.com, hohmuth@sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~hohmuth/

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