megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin) (06/16/86)
I have a question about os9. If I am running program foobar and then a second user runs foobar I know that a 2nd copy of foobar is NOT loaded into memory. We each get our own data area and share the text area. My question (assuming the above is true, if it is not, skip the rest) is this: I am running foobar revision 2 and along comes the other user and runs foobar revision 3. Now what happens? Won't os9 overwrite foobar.2 with foobar.3 and send me crashing to the ground? Or, will there now be two copies of foobar running until the link coun on foobar.2 or foobar.3 goes to zero? I ask this because I know in a single user situation, I can load in a new revision of a program, evem one in ROM, and the newest revision is the one that will appear in the module directory, replaceing the earlier version -- _________________________________________________________________________ UUCP: (1) seismo!dolqci!irsdcp!scsnet!sunder Mark E. Sunderlin (2) ihnp4!chinet!megabyte aka Dr. Megabyte CIS: 74026,3235 (202) 634-2529 Quote: "You have to have FAITH, for that to work on me!" Mail: IRS 1111 Constitution Ave. NW PM:PFR:D:NO Washington, DC 20224