"Dan Koren" <dankoren@yahoo.com> writes:

>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817...chapter2-48195

>Thanks for the pointer.

>This does not seem to be what I'm looking for however.

It is.

>The examples on the page you pointed me to illustrate
>init and fini routines that are invoked as a result of
>running a program. What I'm looking for is a method of
>loading and initializing a shared library upon loading,
>regardless of any program being run that might use it
>(and not waiting for this to happen).

Using init and fini routines inside a library will have the
same effect; they are executed when the library is first loaded,
just like the methods in the examples are executed when the
program is loaded.

Casper
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