Upgrading Python Breaks Extensions; Fix proposal

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Aug 29 10:19:08 EDT 2001


    John> Under Unix, each program is its own address space, and .so modules
    John> are private resources once they're loaded. 

I might be reading this wrong, and I'm definitely taking you out of context,
but the whole idea of .so files is that their text sections *are* shared
among processes.  Their data sections will be process-private.

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