RE: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@medicaldataservice.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Guido Flohr
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 1:46 AM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 12:20:57PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > mbaserel has only one effect: The text segment is shared on
> fork(). But if
> > > your program forks and then execs another image you win
> nothing.  The fork
> > > is a little faster but that is eaten up by the base-relative
> addressing.
> >
> > It's also shared on Pexec(), right?
>
> Effectively, if your programs execs another image there is nothing to
> share because the text segment differs.  Or am I missing something?

Yes, but if for instance the *desktop* Pexec()s two copies of MiniWin, only
one text segment will be present because it's shared...