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If fc.exe depends on DLLs for its core functionality, then the whole scenario is even goofier.

• Locke1689 15y ago
  /usr/bin/diff depends on the following shared libraries for operation: linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7f31000) librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7f18000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7dc9000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7db0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f32000) Did you look any of this information up before making your statements? It looks like ulib.dll is a DLL for file utilities, which would perform an analogous purpose as librt and libc in any UNIX system.
  • quadhome 15y ago
    But, you don't need to reboot a Linux machine after updating a shared library.
    • Locke1689 15y ago
      This was from XP before they re-architected the DLL management. I'm not sure blaming Microsoft for a mistake made more than 9 years ago in OS design is relevant or helpful. -- Me, about 4 comments ago
  • CamperBob 15y ago
    And this is relevant because....? You can rest assured that the actual bug was not in a CRT library DLL. They may have had a good reason for updating ulib.dll which wasn't mentioned in the KB article, but fixing an off-by-one bug in an app-specific memory-compare loop wasn't it.