Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries

Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by pjmlp on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:08AM (#49358519)

So we are re-inventing patched a.out files, back when UNIX systems started to introduce dynamic loading, before ELF was invented?

Advocates of static linking keep forgetting once upon a time UNIX only had static linking, then we had overlays, and eventually dynamic linking came to be.

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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by pg83 on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:37AM (#49358738)

Of course, I remember those times very well.

And I also remember very well that dynamic linking appeared ONLY because we were catastrophically short on memory; everything else was added much later.

Now we have plenty of memory, and we can very well return to our blessed roots!

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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by pjmlp on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @05:01AM (#49358915)

Not at all, the pain of doing plugins with UNIX IPC was another one.

Ah, you have lots of memory, we're very wealthy. /s

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Re:Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries by mohamedkoubaa on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @09:21AM (#49361278)

There is no RAM shortage in Ba-Sing-Se

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