[clean-list] Re: Clean and the Open-Source community

[Ronny Wichers Schreur]

Richard A. O'Keefe writes (to the Clean discussion list):

> What, if any, facility is missing from Linux (or more generally, from the
> Single Unix Specification) that prevents this major new feature being
> available on, shall we say, less insecure platforms than Windows?

It's not Linux that's missing something, but nobody (inside or outside
Nijmegen) has felt the urge to implement dynamic linking on that
platform. I believe that the ELF loader provides enough hooks to make
it easier than the current implementation under Windows.


Cheers,

Ronny Wichers Schreur