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From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
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Date: 16 Sep 92 04:59:52 GMT
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In article <1992Sep15.143458.15689@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,
st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
> Well, in a way, the mechanism involved by SunOS does use
> self-modifying code.
> Sorta, that is. The executable image is modified in place immediately
> before
> execution begins.
Does this make the text of the executable non-sharable between multiple
processes? Or is the O/S smart enough to recognize that, though modified, each
process would be running the same modifications and therefore the text is
sharable?
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Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
| what is wrong with it.