Gnu Emacs using shared memory -- request (ammended)
Rob Warnock
rpw3 at rigden.wpd.sgi.com
Mon Mar 4 19:43:45 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar4.022153.26544 at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
russell at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell J Fulton;ccc032u) writes:
+---------------
| Oops... In my previous article I used the term 'shared memory' in a incorrect
| sense. What I meant was shared libraries. I had forgotten that SYS V has an
| IPC mechanism called shared memory.
|
| What I want is a mechanism by which many users of a program (Emacs) use a
| single copy of the code in memory and have separate data segments.
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This is the automatic default. From "man ld":
-z Arrange that the process pages are loaded on demand from the
resulting executable file (0413, or ZMAGIC, format) rather than
preloaded, and the text pages shared among all users. This is the
default.
-Rob
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