Upgrading Python Breaks Extensions; Fix proposal
Neil Schemenauer
nas at python.ca
Wed Aug 29 10:28:09 EDT 2001
Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> 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.
That's an optimization done at the OS level however. The process does
not see it. I think (perhaps incorrectly) that John is saying that the
sharing is done in a less transparent fashion on Windows. Can someone
confirm?
I don't know how this relates to the original question however.
Neil
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