Linked by Adam S on Tue 26th Aug 2008 21:12 UTC
Dynamically linked shared libraries are an important aspect of GNU/Linux. They allow executables to dynamically access external functionality at run time and thereby reduce their overall memory footprint. This article investigates the process of creating and using dynamic libraries, provides details on the various tools for exploring them, and explores how these libraries work under the hood.
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2006-07-16
Here is a much much better and in-depth article: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf How to write shared libraries
Edited 2008-08-27 14:17 UTC