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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!cd.amdahl.com!gab10 From: gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup Message-ID: <2aFn02vQ22Jx01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 16 Sep 92 04:59:52 GMT References: <18iprpINNg6e@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep8.200625.2894@socrates.umd.edu> <veit.716026274@du9ds3> <18lkkkINN14d@agate.berkeley.edu> <veit.716107923@du9ds3> <7dnL02y821gh01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <veit.716291291@du9ds3> <1992Sep14.232949.9093@bby.com.au>, Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 17 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? -- 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.