Big picture on shared libraries when they go wrong, how?

[Walter Bright]

On 5/7/2024 8:45 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
>> They don't have much in common with shared libraries on OSX and Posix.
> 
> They do have plenty in common, this is a misconception I really want to get you 
> off of. There is a dedicated heading for this ``Is a Dynamic Link Library a 
> Shared Library?``.

Isn't it true that DLLs on Windows share their global data segment with all 
users of the DLL? While Linux shared libraries have a separate data segment for 
each process?

This is a very major difference.