Comments for Aymeric on software http://blog.barthe.ph Because we needed another of these blogs... Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:41:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Make LoadLibrary() failures silent on Win2k by Aymeric http://blog.barthe.ph/2009/12/03/silent_loadlibrary/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 Aymeric Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:53:49 +0000 http://blog.barthe.ph/?p=513#comment-1779 <a href="#comment-1775" rel="nofollow">@Ferruccio</a> Are you thinking of using LoadLibraryEx() with LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE? That approach does not work. The LoadLibraryEx would always succeed regardless of whether the CRT is installed or not. Also, I suspect running DllMain is useful, there might be extra checks done by the CRT. If DllMain returns FALSE, the LoadLibrary call fails. @Ferruccio
Are you thinking of using LoadLibraryEx() with LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE? That approach does not work. The LoadLibraryEx would always succeed regardless of whether the CRT is installed or not. Also, I suspect running DllMain is useful, there might be extra checks done by the CRT. If DllMain returns FALSE, the LoadLibrary call fails.

]]> Comment on Make LoadLibrary() failures silent on Win2k by Ferruccio http://blog.barthe.ph/2009/12/03/silent_loadlibrary/comment-page-1/#comment-1775 Ferruccio Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:13:58 +0000 http://blog.barthe.ph/?p=513#comment-1775 This isn't just a Win2k issue. This has been the case for all versions of Windows going back all the way to 16-bit Windows. The only problem with this approach is that loading the DLL in this manner will cause the code in its DllMain() function to be executed, which is probably harmless. You may want to use the LoadLibraryEx() function which lets you load the library as data, avoiding running DllMain(). Also SetErrorMode() returns its previous setting. It's good practice to set it back after the LoadLibrary(). This isn’t just a Win2k issue. This has been the case for all versions of Windows going back all the way to 16-bit Windows. The only problem with this approach is that loading the DLL in this manner will cause the code in its DllMain() function to be executed, which is probably harmless. You may want to use the LoadLibraryEx() function which lets you load the library as data, avoiding running DllMain().

Also SetErrorMode() returns its previous setting. It’s good practice to set it back after the LoadLibrary().

]]> Comment on Fast subversion update on a rarely updated large third party repository by Dan http://blog.barthe.ph/2009/06/01/fast-svn-update/comment-page-1/#comment-1506 Dan Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:45:09 +0000 http://blog.barthe.ph/?p=174#comment-1506 Nice. Thanks, I'd forgotten about "info" - good post. Nice. Thanks, I’d forgotten about “info” - good post.

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