Hello Arjen!

Saturday July 30 1994, Arjen Lentz writes to All:

 AL> A DLL used by multiple OS/2 processes, will only be loaded once.
 AL> Right? An EXE running in multiple OS/2 processes, like a mailer/BBS in
 AL> a multi-line situation, will be loaded again for each process. Right?

 DLL's, Right. EXE's Wrong. In OS/2 EXE's the code is only loaded once
 (Data segments are of course loaded for each process. (same for dlls))

 For dos EXE's the code is loaded for each process (to support self-modifying
 code and other nasty dos'ism :-)

 AL> For instance UNIX only loads a program once, you
 AL> can even give it a 'sticky bit' attribute, forcing it to stay in
 AL> memory all the time, even if no processes use it at a particular time
 AL> (imagine a BBS program, called by getty).

 A 'sticky bit' isn't supported under os/2, but several utilities exits, which
 does nothing but load the code (using DosLoadModule)
 So to keep your bbs loaded, you say 'detach loadstuff mybbs.exe'

Regards
Jeppe

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