On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 8/26/10 10:23 , David Leimbach wrote:
> > Go, for example, has no shared libraries, and the runtime fits in every
> > binary. It does not even depend on libc. Go binaries call the system
> call
> > interface of the kernel, and the net result is that I get to test my go
> > code, deploy it, and not worry about the state of deployed go
> environments
> > quite so much as I do in the presence of shared libraries.
>
> Um. That's a really good way to have all your programs stop working when
> the Linux kernel interface changes yet again ("ABIs? We don't need no
> steenking ABIs!" --- see in /usr/src/linux/Documentation). Solaris is
> similar; the only approved interface is via libc and you must link to it
> shared if you want your program to work across versions/releases.
>
> (Which is the reason shared library support is important. I personally
> like
> my programs to keep working.)
>
So you have to keep the runtime as up to date as glibc? Sounds ok :-).
Also, I don't know anyone that supports people updating kernels in linux in
any sort of commercial setting for the very reason you just gave. Sounds
like asking for trouble. In my experience, a kernel upgrade is taken
pretty seriously, and not done without very good reason. Look at CentOS,
it's on a pretty old kernel most of the time, because people in enterprise
situations prefer stability over bleeding edge features.
Dave
>
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> brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [email protected]
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected]
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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