On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:00:12AM +0200, Andor Demarteau wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Dave Mielke wrote: > > The closest thing Linux has to Windows DLLs is the .so (shared object) files, > > but there's one very big difference. Somewhat simplistically, the global > > variables in a DLL persist and are shared among all the applications which use > > it, whereas the global variables in a Linux shared object file are private to > > each aplication which uses it and don't persist from one invocation of that > > application to the next. > IC, simplistic however but a real possitive and and be it inportant > differance. In case you need global variables you can use shared-memory (shmget,shmctl,shmop) -Yves -- "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein