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Date:      Sat, 08 Feb 1997 10:02:48 -0500
From:      Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   In what way are shared libs ``shared''?
Message-ID:  <199702081502.KAA29141@spooky.rwwa.com>

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Looking at rtld.c I see:

  addr = mmap(0, hdr.a_text + hdr.a_data + hdr.a_bss,
              PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_COPY, fd, 0)

>From my understanding of MAP_COPY semantics, this is *not*
a shared mapping.  If I am right about this, then how
are shared libs shared?

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