Re: Accessing IE/Netscape incomming data

[tschroed () ACM ORG (Trevor Schroeder)]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> You patch winsock.dll typically. You move the official one to owinsck.dll
> and make your new winsock.dll reporcess all the calls then call the original.
>
> Its mich like the LD_PRELOAD facilities in Unix systems

Only not.  LD_PRELOAD allows a user to selectively proload certain
libraries, however, it does not require them to shuffle around system
libraries to make way for the ones they want to load in.

I can't tell you how many times I've been burned (in a support role, not as
a user ;) by Windows apps that decide that they have The One True Library
and blithely overwrite a DLL with an older version (or a newer one) that
subsequently breaks a bunch of other apps.

It's a retarded scheme.
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