Paul Elliott <pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com> writes: > The state of a global variable in one program does not effect the state > of the same global variable in another program that links the same > shared library. Both programs have seperate copies of static or global > writable varriables of the shared library.
That's correct. > Unless the programmer takes special action to force only one copy. That can only be done within a single program that's multithreaded (unless by "special action" you mean things like System V shared memory segments or something similar that's rather more than just normal static or global variables). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehx3b6v7....@windlord.stanford.edu