> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:46:40 >+0100, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > vinschen> That's exactly how it can't work. The DLL search algorithm is inside > vinschen> of Windows and it doesn't work using symlinks (resp. shortcuts under > vinschen> Windows) unfortunately. > > OK, another question: does Windows DLLs have any version information > inside that's used for comparison, or is it just informative?
The version information stored in the DLL resources is strictly informative. It is not used during the process of resolving dynamic links to libraries. And for good reason, there is no information in the process that is linked to the DLL to indicate the version. DLLs are discovered simply by using application specific search path data stored in the registry combined with the current PATH environment variable. Hard Links allowing a file to have multiple directory entries are supported in NTFS however very few shells understand how to manipulate them. Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer Kermit 95 2.0 GUI available now!!! The Kermit Project @ Columbia University SSH, Secure Telnet, Secure FTP, HTTP http://www.kermit-project.org/ Secured with MIT Kerberos, SRP, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSL. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
