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On Aug  3 10:48, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> 
> > . . .
> 
> > We're working on a new release of rebase anyway.  This new release
> > checks for writability and prints just a warning without stopping
> > dead in its track:
> >
> >   /usr/bin/foo.dll: skipped because not writable
> 
> > Otherwise, what we can do is to open the file with
> > FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS.  This would allow you to rebase DLLs
> > without write permissions if you have admin privileges.
> 
> A combination of the two would be best, I think.  That is, try
> FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, so for Admins it will work, and if _that_
> fails print the message.

I agree.  I checked that in.


Corinna

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