X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com
X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 	tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Message-ID: <4AEFF7EF.4040202@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:29:19 -0600
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Shall dlopen("foo") succeeed if only "foo.dll" exists?
References: <20091102164807.GA2897@calimero.vinschen.de>  <4AEF305E.1010105@cygwin.com> <20091102203348.GC6836@calimero.vinschen.de> <4AEFE81D.8010202@towo.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AEFE81D.8010202@towo.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe@cygwin.com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help@cygwin.com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com

On 03/11/2009 02:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> In terms of compatibility and least surprising behavior, what about
> accepting dlopen ("bla.so") and looking for "bla.dll"?

No, Ruby and Apache2 (among others) use .so on all platforms, including 
native Win32.


Yaakov

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple