Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/09/19/07:01:12
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:04:59PM -0400, Li-Kai Liu wrote:
>
>>AFAIK Relocated .dll's will never push a .dll with a different base
>>address out of the way. I.E. For that set of .dll's
>>
>>the program will get it's address 0x10000000, cygwin1.dll get's its base
>>address, and the 5 .dll's get 5 other random address's.
>>
>>How is it better? With a .dll that conflicts with cygwin1.dll, it's boom
>>(everytime) :].
>>
>
>comment by a random passer by (me):
>
>perhaps someone will just end up writing a process loader for cygwin
>that interacts directly with NtNnnn API (and stop supporting Win9x at
>once!), and so we can start supporting object formats such as ELF with
>our own freedom. i'm kind of sick about trying to fit the light-weight
>shared objects in GnuPG to fit into the massively bloated DLL model ...
>
>ah, it is so hard to be a nice person ... trying to be able to work with
>multitudes of challenge ... win98, winnt, win2k and winxp all have
>different tempers!
No arguments from me.
cgf
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