Re: dynamic vs. mostly static data

[barries]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:46:03AM -0800, Jason Liu wrote:
> Is a package global var, such as %CACHE in the code below, persistent during
> the life of a child process?

Yup.

> Does each child get a copy of %CACHE after the parent forks?

For all intents and purposes, yes.  Most OSs will mark those pages
Copy on Write.

- Barrie