Re: Windows and DLLs

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

>>>>> "L" == Liss Svanberg <lisss@ydab.se> writes:

L> In a previous message Alan Shutko [ats@acm.org] wrote:

>> System-wide settings: No, these aren't so John and Jane Doe can
>> break your things without hacking your account. 

L> Yes, they can!  If both them and I are using the same application,
L> foo.app.  If foo.app stores system-wide settings in it's user
L> setup. 

Ok, I understand the problem now.  It's all a matter of permissions.
Unix has them, Win95 doesn't.  Even if you allow an app to directly
modify system-wide settings, unless it has permission to modify that
file, it's not going to be able to.

So don't worry on this one, it's a long-solved problem.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - By consent of the corrupted
Anyone stupid enough to be caught by the police is probably guilty.