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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
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Subject: Re: Danger Will Robinson, traps for young player.
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Date: 21 Aug 90 18:54:10 GMT
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In article <1990Aug20.193639.7986@Neon.Stanford.EDU> 
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
> In article <1990Aug20.143025.2160@eng.umd.edu>, russotto@eng.umd.edu
> (Matthew T. Russotto) writes:
> > It may not be-- it may only be changed until you reboot-- remember 
that there
> > is only one resource handle for all applications that use the string.
> Clarification please. If the resource is loaded into the system heap, 
this may
> be true, but don't the resource loading traps treat requests from 
different
> applications independently (1 resource map per application zone)?
> 
> Philip Machanick
> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu

If your app opens a resource file explicitly, yes. Your app's own resource 
fork, yes. These are private copies in your own application heap. But the 
System resource map is shared among all running apps. The map is kept in 
the System heap and is unique. (Imagine the chaos if two apps made 
differing changes to private copies of the system resource map, and then 
wrote them out.)

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