Re: Replace exe and dll in use

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r_z_aret_at_pen_fact.com
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:48:57 -0400

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:02:01 +0200, Viviana Vc <vcotirlea@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:07:22 -0400, r_z_aret@pen_fact.com wrote :
>
>>On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 13:03:40 +0200, Viviana Vc <vcotirlea@hotmail.com>
>>wrote:

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>>>2) My product has a dll that is used by multimple application from the
>>>system. Is there any way in which I could update this dll (without
>>>killing all the exe that have loaded this dll)? Or this is doable only
>>>over a reboot?
>>
>>How about renaming the old DLL, copying in (or renaming) the
>>replacement, and letting each program start using the new version
>>whenever it restarted?
>
>Upss, I didn't know that I could rename a dll that is already loaded by
>some applications! Because I couldn't replace it I thought that also
>renaming will fail. Seems not. And the same if for the running exes.
>But in the dll case, as I don't know all the app that have loaded it, so
>I can not restart only those, I will need a reboot anyhow, so I could
>also use the MoveFileEx right?
>
>>

Rename is a special case of Move. I use MoveFile, not MoveFileEx. And
not for anything tricky. So I'm quite sure you're getting better info
about MoveFileEx in another set of responses.

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