Subject: Re: "filtered" shared libraries
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: None <collver@linuxfreemail.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/01/2001 17:08:09
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:33:17AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 collver@linuxfreemail.com wrote:
> > Sounds like a cool idea, does ld.so already do this?
>
> Isn't this called "demand paging"?
Thanks for reminding me! I wonder why anyone would need "lazy loading" to
be explicitly supported by the link loader.
I guess with "lazy loading" you could have even less mmap'ed in the first
place, but why would you need that on a server system?
I am but an egg..