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Old 11-18-2008
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Naming conventions for shared libraries in Linux
Hello,

I'm wondering what is the naming conventions for *.so shared libraries in linux. For example, a library in /lib, say libcrypt-2.7.so has a symbolic link called libcrypt.so.1 pointing to it, yet libncursesw.so.5.6 has a symbolic link called libncursesw.so.5 pointing to it. What is the relationship between the numbers in the symbolic links and the actual targets?