Hi Everyone, Thanks. the .so files sound a lot more robust than dll's. I'm beginning to wish I could take my whole office to Linus, but I guess that's too big a change. I'm getting really disgusted with the instability and lack of security of Windows. John Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Mielke" <dave@mielke.cc> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 17:14 Subject: Re: Linux DLL Equivalent > [quoted lines by Andor Demarteau on August 14, 2001, at 23:04] > > Hi: > > >I have to agree on this, it probably are the .so files. > > Not that this is the topic of this list, but: > > The closest thing Linux has to Windows DLLs is the .so (shared object) files, > but there's one very big difference. Somewhat simplistically, the global > variables in a DLL persist and are shared among all the applications which use > it, whereas the global variables in a Linux shared object file are private to > each aplication which uses it and don't persist from one invocation of that > application to the next. > > -- > Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | I believe that the Bible is the > Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | Word of God. Please contact me > EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada K2A 1H7 | if you're concerned about Hell. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >