On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:11:30 -0500, LesK <5mre20@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:

>Doesn't START start a new thread? If you want to replicate what the discussion
>was about, wouldn't you have to do something like:
>
>main.rex
>call inita
>call initb
>exit

As I read the thread there was no mention of the use of "call". And no
one had distinguished between a "call" (which would stay within the
existing rexx process) and something that starts a new process.

We had also discussed the "first load of the required program" without
mentioning the scope of "first".

Since these sorts of actions run right to the heart of all the code
that I've written in the past few years, I wanted to clarify when the
statements about "first loaded" would be true, and when they were not
true.

For a horrific few minutes, I was wondering if the required program
was loaded into memory shared across separate REXX processes, and the
initialisation code ran only once.

I don't mind separate processes sharing the same loaded code, but
having the initialisation run only in the first process which required
it would drive a coach and horses through most of my code.

--
Steve Swift
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