William McBrine wrote in a message to Neil Heller:

-=> Neil Heller wrote to Roy J. Tellason <=-

 NH> Does Linux use DLLs?

 WM> Linux calls them "shared libraries", and their names end
in ".so"
 WM> (plus a version number, usually); but the concept and function is
 WM> the same.

That's what I thought!  Nice to see some confirmation...

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