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From: stripes@pix.com (Josh Osborne)
Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 12:10:07 GMT
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In article <2aFn02vQ22Jx01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> gab10@cd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes:
[...]
>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?
Runtime linked code will not allways be the same for each copy of the
same executable. Not if we support a library path like Sun does (which
is a good idea), or if a new lib is installed after starting one copy of
xterm but before another is started.
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