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Re: dynamic loading of so's on clusters


Peter Bowen <pzb@datastacks.com> writes:

> It would be nice to see something integrated into glibc to
> support single system image clusters.

This adds code to the control flow of every single application
although it's not used by 99.9% of all users.  Plus, if something like
this would be added the next person implementing something similar
could rightly demand to be supported, too.

I see nothing wrong with special software for special machines.

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