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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!casper From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup Message-ID: <1992Sep16.165527.25135@fwi.uva.nl> Sender: news@fwi.uva.nl Nntp-Posting-Host: adam.fwi.uva.nl Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam 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>, <2aFn02vQ22Jx01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 16:55:27 GMT Lines: 16 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? If the shared library is properly constructed, no such patching of the executable needs to be done. In the case of an improperly constructed shared library, the text segment will not be shared between executables. Casper -- | Casper H.S. Dik | casper@fwi.uva.nl