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From: taso@munnari.oz (Taso Hatzi)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Shareable Images
Message-ID: <1812@munnari.oz>
Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 21:56:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  5 21:56:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 21:04:26 EDT
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I want to combine a set of routines into a shareable image.  The
routines contain static (ie. non-stack) variables.  Some of the
variables are private to a routine while others are global to all of
the routines in the shareable image.  I want each program which calls
routines in the shareable image to get its own copy of the variables.  The
variables should be initialized (to zero) each time a program which
uses the shareable image is activated.

What attributes must I give to the psect's containing the variables 
in order to achieve this.  Also, how should I install the shareable
image?  Or in other words, how can I arrange it so that the global
section which contains the psects which contain the variables has the
`copy on reference' attribute m