[TriLUG] shared libraries aren't shared

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Alan Porter wrote:

>
> That is not how shared libraries work (thank goodness).

did they used to work this way?

So shared globals in libraries is process safe, but not 
thread safe?

> But there are two copies of the data segment, one for each
> application.

so there's two BSS's. Didn't know that.

if instead of having a global variable in the library code, 
I have

#include <stdio.h>

void print_int(void){
 	static int j;
 	++j;
 	printf ("j=%d \n", j);
}

I still don't get a race condition when used by two 
executables. Is the static int j stored in its own data 
segment too?


Thanks Joe

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