Multiple desktop windows

[Ove Kaaven]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, BALATON Zoltan wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > > Does every task have a new instance of x11drv?
> >
> > Yes. Every task have a new process, i.e. new instance of all of Wine.
> 
> Really _all_ of wine? x11drv is a shared object. Why it isn't shared then
> between the wine processes?

Since when did shared objects under Unix systems share their *data*
sections across different processes? The point of shared objects is to
avoid duplicating the *code* in RAM and on disk (and facilitate upgrades).