Re: Windows restart ?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:43, Lübbe Onken
<luebbe.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
>> On 16.02.2010 13:10, Lübbe Onken wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to call a method in the wrapper dll from the
> installer?

Sure, any process can call a method in a dll. But it has to load the dll first.
So: it's possible but useless. It would have to call the method of the
dll that the other process has already loaded, effectively accessing
another processes memory - and that's not allowed.

Stefan

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