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- From: mehran@monet.uwaterloo.ca (Mehran Farimani)
- Subject: Re: Faking re-entrancy with second copy of DLL?
- Message-ID: <Bxt5vv.Bs7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Keywords: DLL REENTRANT
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <1992Nov14.093916.1050@netcom.com> <1992Nov15.021203.12280@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:11:55 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1992Nov15.021203.12280@netcom.com> steven@netcom.com (Steven Nelson) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov14.093916.1050@netcom.com> mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe) writes:
- >>
- >>If you rename X.DLL to Y.DLL, and tell your program to
- >>access Y.DLL instead of X.DLL, is anything else going
- >>to bite you? It *looks* like 'x' is stored in X.DLL
- >>and simply renaming the DLL file does NOT do the
- >>complete trick.
- >>
- >>Suppose now that you had a copy of the DLL source; can
- >>you simply rename and relink it?
- >>
- >>I know it's wierd.... just trying to fake it!
- >>
- >>Miles
- >>
- >
- >You will need to change the LIBRARY statement in the .DEF file
- >and relink the application that uses the DLL with this new library.
- >This is the name used by Windows to load the appropriate DLL.
- >
- >Steven Nelson
- >steven@netcom.com
-
- I'm not sure if that's quite right. My experience has been that Windows
- looks for a DLL based on its file name. There is no need for recompiling
- the library to rename it ...
-
- Regards,
-
- --Mehran
-
-