On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:15:01 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> I've *never* seen shared
>> libraries updated by opening them and writing a change into them, then
>> saving them out again.
> 
> So, you haven't used gcc much, then? :-)

I use it quite a bit.  A recompile of a library generates a new file, it 
doesn't modify an existing library like you would a text document = open, 
modify, save by writing to same inode.

Jim

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