[openbeos] Re: on SoftwareValet for OBOS

  • From: "Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:51:43 -0600

> > ever write to system directories.  Another thought that came up 
> > that
> > was what I thought, a good idea - use attributes on the shared 
> > library
> > files to "register" programs using them.  Then you could have an 
> > app
> > (such as an installer/uninstaller) search the file attributes of
> > installed shared libraries and remove any that had no applications
> > assigned to them.  This, of course, requires that all application
> > developers "registered" their programs with shared libs by adding 
> > to
> > the attributes of the libs.  Food for thought.
> > Deej
> 
> Not being a programmer this may be a stupid idea...
> Would it be possible to have "intelligent" shared libraries that add 
> the
> calling application to its attribute if it's not registered there 
> already. Or
> does this add a major overhead?

This is next to impossible, I'm afraid. It *can* be done, but it would 
add enormous overhead.
-Nathan

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Fortune Cookie Says:

Q:  How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift?
A:  33.  1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.


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