Re: How to get started

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:04, Satadru Pramanik wrote:
> Windows has been moving further and further away from a paradigm of 
> requiring reboots to replace files.  Whatever glue is written to get 
> around the problem of not being able to replace in use files, please 
> consider the use of functionality such as qchain in windows, which lets 
> you schedule several reboot requiring updates for just one reboot 
> cycle.

*cough*.

Microsoft have got better at dynamically unloading and reloading
modules, thus working around the issue...but the underlying problem -
that a open file/directory cannot be replaced
hasn't changed at all.

and qchain *is* a reboot requiring solution, all qchain does is work
around a limitation in hotfix.exe, in that it hotfix is an incomplete
solution.

Rob

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