Arjen Lentz wrote in a message to All:

 AL> Hi All,
Hi Arjen!

 AL> A DLL used by multiple OS/2 processes, will only be loaded
 AL> once. Right? 

Mhmm, CODE or DATA? 

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

CODE or DATA?

 AL> If the above two observations are correct, it'd be rather
 AL> unfortunate, wouldn't you agree? 
 AL> For instance UNIX only

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I analyzed a few DLLs and EXEs with EXEHDR:

DLL

DATA: SHARED or NONSHARED
CODE: never declared SHARED!

EXE

DATA: NONSHARED
CODE: NONSHARED


Personally I think, all CODE segments are shared by definition (CODE is not
writable and may be shared therefore).

Remember Wind*ws? This system was swapping code segments out of the exe
files! Surely OS/2 1.x used the same scheme and why shouldn't it share
them?

Too bad, EXEHDR is not telling "EXECUTABLE, ..., SHARED".

Somebody owning a REDBOOK?


Tschuesz,
           Vitus

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