Re: Faking re-entrancy with second copy of DLL?

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From: Mehran Farimani
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:11

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In article <1992Nov15.021203.12280@netcom.com> steven@netcom.com (Steven Nelson) writes:
>In article <1992Nov14.093916.1050@netcom.com> mbk@netcom.com (Miles Kehoe) writes:
>>
>>If you rename X.DLL to Y.DLL, and tell your program to
>>access Y.DLL instead of X.DLL, is anything else going
>>to bite you? It *looks* like 'x' is stored in X.DLL
>>and simply renaming the DLL file does NOT do the
>>complete trick. 
>>
>>Suppose now that you had a copy of the DLL source; can
>>you simply rename and relink it?
>>
>>I know it's wierd.... just trying to fake it!
>>
>>Miles
>>
>
>You will need to change the LIBRARY statement in the  .DEF file
>and relink the application that uses the DLL with this new library. 
>This is the name used by Windows to load the appropriate DLL.
>
>Steven Nelson
>steven@netcom.com 

I'm not sure if that's quite right. My experience has been that Windows
looks for a DLL based on its file name. There is no need for recompiling
the library to rename it ...

Regards,

--Mehran

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