Dynamic linking in Linux and Windows, part one

Posted by dcparris on Aug 9, 2006 6:25 AM EDT
SecurityFocus; By Reji Thomas and Bhasker Reddy
Mail this story
Print this story

This article discusses the shared libraries concept in both Windows and Linux, and offers a walk-through through various data structures to explain how dynamic linking is done in these operating systems. The paper will be useful for developers interested in the security implications and the relative speed of dynamic linking, and assumes some prior cursory knowledge with dynamic linking.

[This should be interesting. - dcparris]

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial; Groups: GNU, Linux

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.