Re: Windows restart ?

On 16.02.2010 13:10, Lübbe Onken wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>
>> Simple: they kill all explorer.exe instances, run the installation,
>> then create a new process "explorer.exe".
>>
>> But: good luck if there's another app that has the dlls loaded.
>> (file-open dialogs, shell icon use, ...)
>
> Out of curiosity: would it be possible to use a two stage system to fool
> explorer and other apps?
>
> Something like:
> 1) a wrapper dll which is loaded by explorer
> 2) this wrapper dll loads "the real" dll and passes all calls through
>
> Upon an installation of TortoiseSVN, the installer sends a notification
> to the wrapper dll which first unloads "the real" dll, and always

And here's the problem: how to send that message? And how would that
message be received by the dll?
Window messages won't work, as won't pipes.

Stefan

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