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OS9: Question about module management

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From: Mark E. Sunderlin
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1986 20:08
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I have a question about os9. If I am running program foobar and then
a second user runs foobar I know that a 2nd copy of foobar is NOT loaded
into memory.  We each get our own data area and share the text area.

My question (assuming the above is true, if it is not, skip the rest) is this:
I am running foobar revision 2 and along comes the other user and runs foobar 
revision 3.  Now what happens? Won't os9 overwrite foobar.2 with foobar.3 and
send me crashing to the ground?  Or, will there now be two copies of foobar
running until the link coun on foobar.2 or foobar.3 goes to zero?

I ask this because I know in a single user situation, I can load in a new
revision of a program, evem one in ROM, and the newest revision is the one
that will appear in the module directory, replaceing the earlier version
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From: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: OS9: Question about module management
Message-ID: <375@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 16:08:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.375
Posted: Mon Jun 16 16:08:09 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Jun-86 04:26:41 EDT
Reply-To: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Mark E. Sunderlin)
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Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL
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Summary: What happens when later revsion load in