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jamesb@ecst.csuchico.edu (James L. Brookes) writes:

>One reason I asked this, is because uEmacs has a variable to control
>restartibility.  Does anyone actually turn this off?

  Why? :-)

>So, then should all apps be written to use rexit()?  I don't really see
>any reason to -not- make an app restartable, but then I have 4.25 megs
>of memory, and want -everything- restartable :)

  Well, some applications would take a LOT of work to make restartable.
That is, excepting the trick that Morgan Davis used to make uEmacs
restartable.  I don't know that his technique will work with ORCA/C,
though.

>Hm, a couple of questions I just thought of re: restartability:

>I've noticed that, if I have a restartable program running in the
>background, and try to run the same application in the foreground, it will
>not restart.  No surprise, that's to be expected.  But, even after one
>execution, this copy of the app won't restart.  So, is it to be presumed
>that there can only be one copy of a given restartable application in memory
>at a time?  Is it possible, in a multiuser system, for someone (for example)
>on console to use a restartable program, then exit, and for another person
>not on console to use the copy in memory?

  Yes, but not simultaneously.  GNO specifcally reloads a program from
disk if a restartable executable is running and another copy is
requested.  The system loader simply doesn't deal with more than
one restartable copy of a program at one time.

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