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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!news.cs.brandeis.edu!ST923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu From: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Benjamin A. Tober) Subject: Re: Shared Libs for X11?, was Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup Message-ID: <1992Sep16.023416.27867@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu Organization: Brandeis University References: <1992Sep14.232949.9093@bby.com.au> <veit.716561866@du9ds3> <1992Sep15.143458.15689@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,<BunBCI.G1t@pix.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:34:16 GMT Lines: 5 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