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- From: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Benjamin A. Tober)
- Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
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- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:34:16 GMT
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- Yes, correct, the same RAM can be aliased as arbitrarily many segments. A lot
- of Unixes do protect the text from being scribbled on, however, in which case
- a kernel extension (but a pretty trivial one, like I said) would be needed. I
- dunno how 386BSD is on this, I haven't studied the kernel extensively.
- -ben
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