Mail Archives: cygwin/2009/11/02/15:34:10
On Nov 2 14:17, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 11/02/2009 11:48 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >For 1.7 our choice is to keep dlopen() checking for the .dll suffix to
> >be more Windows-like, or to be more Linux-like by dropping the check for
> >the .dll suffix so that dlopen() fails if the filename isn't specified
> >fully.
>
> OK, I'll admit I'm responding with a question without actually looking at the
> code and so one can feel free to ignore me. However the thought that came
> to my mind is, should it really matter if dlopen() checks? What does the check
> give us that just passing the name along to LoadLibrary() doesn't? At first
> impression, doing the check just prematurely rejects names without
> the DLL suffix
> that would otherwise be accepted by Windows. Since there's a source
> level change
> that (typically) needs to happen to make the code work on Windows as opposed
> to Linux/Unix, what benefit are we getting from this added check?
Good question, that's exactly why I'm asking.
Answer: Nothing but *maybe* a less surprising behaviour in terms of
POSIX compatibility. Allowing automatic file extension is not part of
the standards and not even mentioned as a possible option. Sure, if
that's nothing to worry about, we can stick to the current behaviour.
Corinna
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