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Originally Posted by henkvdg
So if a program starts, it could ask something like "where-am-I" (pwd?) and the resulting string could be used as prefix for all its files it depends on. Then you achieve position independency, I guess.
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I think Adam's objection is the added work in porting. Most programs you download and compile don't do it. You could go through it, look for every place where it loads something, add the logic, and it works from there. Alas, that adds to the work needed in porting, where "porter's time" seems to be a ultrascarce resource.