There used to be a page from the IE for UNIX porting team[0] that talked about the challenges of a direct port. Last I checked, only a copy of the content coul

There used to be a page from the IE for UNIX porting team[0] that talked about the challenges of a direct port. Last I checked, only a copy of the content could be found on a mailing list post[1]. There's some interesting stuff in there. This one always seemed like a weird problem: Global variables in Win32 dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) are visible across processes, so it is important that developers are careful that these globals do not conflict with any variables within the Unix shared libraries. At least in the way it is presented. What does variables in DLLs being visible across processes on Windows have to do with variables in other libraries? Of course they need to be uniquely referenced. [0] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/98/11/17/1624254/microsoft-programmers-on-porting-to-x http://tech.slashdot.org/story/98/11/17/1624254/microsoft-pr... [1] http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/linux/1999-September/051669.html http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/linux/1999-September/051669.ht...