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[gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com (Jerry Feldman {75562})]

Jerry A Clabaugh wrote:
> 
> This is one of the small points where Unix shines and NT falls
> on its face: The library path and the regular path are the same
> on NT, so applications have greater tendency to interfere with
> one another.  Last week an NT machine I was using became unbootable
> because I put another entry into the PATH, when I needed a library.
> This new directory had something in it with the same name as
> a program which was part of the NT login sequence - result: can't
> login anymore!
I think one of the worst problems in Windows9x+NT is the way DLLs are
handled. In many cases, the installation of an application or even changing
something like a DNS address may require a complete reboot, where most Unix
and Linux systems rarely require a reboot. I have routinely changed shared
libraries in a running system. By shared libraries, I mean libc.so and
libm.so. One needs to take care when doing this, but the procedure works. 
In the "official" patch procedure, we used to require a reboot, but that was
only because it's difficult to recover when one screws it up. In Windows, it
is difficult to install and important DLL on a running system. Other than a
kernel change, Linux rarely needs a reboot. Normally in the worst case a
shutdown to single user mode and then a switch back to multi-user mode will
do it. 

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