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Re: dynamic loading of so's on clusters
- To: Peter Bowen <pzb at datastacks dot com>
- Subject: Re: dynamic loading of so's on clusters
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 30 Sep 2001 20:30:20 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0109302155200.14173-200000@blueraja.scyld.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
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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