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Steam Family Sharing allows users to share their video game library with another Steam user to download and play, but games that the player is VAC banned from cannot be shared. If a user shares their games with another user, then cheats or fraud are detected on the recipient's account, the original owner of the games being shared may be VAC ...
A program that is configured to use a library can use either static-linking or dynamic-linking.Historically, libraries could only be static. [4] For static-linking (), the library is effectively embedded into the programs executable file, while for dynamic-linking the library can be loaded at runtime from a shared location, such as system files.
One of the examples of this is the Windows version of The Orange Box, which uses Steam to enforce the regional lockout. [36] Steam also enforces a form of regional lockout in adherence to German law by offering to German users special versions of some games with banned content – most notably swastikas – replaced. [37]
Steam also offers a framework for selling and distributing downloadable content (DLC) for games. [43] [44] In September 2013, Steam introduced the ability to share most games with family members and close friends by authorizing machines to access one's library.
A business model that dissuades illegal file sharing is to make legal content downloading easy and cheap. Pirate websites often host malware which attaches itself to the files served . [ 175 ] If content is provided on legitimate sites and is reasonably priced, consumers are more likely to purchase media legally.
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One (called the iopen glock) keeps track of which processes have the inode open. The other (the inode glock) controls the cache relating to that inode. A glock has four states, UN (unlocked), SH (shared – a read lock), DF (deferred – a read lock incompatible with SH) and EX (exclusive). Each of the four modes maps directly to a DLM lock mode.