Re: [Missing Something] Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: [Missing Something] Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: [Missing Something] Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:05:49 -0500
On Thursday, July 5, 2001, at 12:30 PM, Rosyna wrote:
Did we all forget the Mac OS has never allowed multiple instances of an
application? Windows always has and it was probably easy to build on
top of this "functionality"
cocoa CAN run multiple instances of a single app using different users.
but imagine if a user was running First Class or Fizzila and
fast-switched. It would make it impossible for another user to use
these apps.
Actually, what everyone is forgetting is that Quartz is a
single-user-at-a-time windowing system. (Root doesn't count as a user in
this situation).
If it were a multi-user-at-a-time window server, you could do what
you're describing now with 'su'. You can't, because it isn't.
Brian
email@hidden
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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