In article <20031006082911.DE4F53F07C2@trinity.ihack.net>,
	"Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com> writes:
> What, pray tell, is the point of this stupid perversion, when creating
> shared libraries works,

Because the vendor of these shared libraries has decided for technical
reason not to provide shared versions of those libraries.

> ... and is what several vendors already do?

This is a null argument. The majority of Open Source Unix vendors use
a Linux kernel these days But this doesn't mean that we should replace
our kernel.

> This lossage has been screwing people for YEARS.

Yes, but it was caused by the people who used these non-standard
shared libraries.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/