Re: Packaging questions

[Miloslav Trmac <mitr volny cz>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:02:19AM -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> If the library is built as shared then multiple applications can enter
> its code space at the same time. Being non-reentrant most if not all of
> these applications would break.
Linux is not Windows 3.1; a shared library does not have its "data segment"
shared across all processes that use the library (unless it explicitly
creates a shared memory mapping).
	Mirek