Re: packaging static lib oriented software
> There are stories that sites have had trouble with a number of people
> running the same program when linked against a shared lib.
Executable are treated like shared libraries by the OS. The system
maps one copy of the text pages into each user's address space, so
that all users share the same memory for the program text. The data
is copy-on-write.
This makes me dubious about the story.
Bruce
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