Re: Translators code duplicated? (weird question)

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@utbm.fr> writes:

> What happens exactly under the Hurd if you are running for instance
> several ext2fs servers? Would the exec server for instance be able
> to recognize that this server is already using and start running the
> second server without duplicating the code (just allocating space
> for the data of the second server)?

Well, the binaries are shared, just as any program is on Unix.  If
fifteen people are all running emacs, they all share the same code
segment for the emacs program.  Same for Hurd servers.

If two ext2fs servers are running using the *same* disk partition,
then they do nothing special to cooperate, and will mangle each
other's work horribly.