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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: Static linking and memory usage
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> In response to the original post: The kernel's ELF linker/loader for 
> executables will share the text and read-only segments for static 
> executables.

Thanks, this is what I was looking for - I kind of thought it worked that
way but just wanted to check, (because if not I am wasting a lot of memory!)

cheers,

-pete.