Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Each time you loaded a library, it checked the list of unsatisfied functions in the program against the list of functions in the library, and pulled them across.

So if one library function referenced another function in the same library, you often had to load the library twice to satisfy the second reference.

I've often felt that was better than the monolithic "just link the entire library", but it does prevent the "shared library across processes" approach.

Cheers,
Wol