[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4 released!

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2010, at 3:37 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
>> Windows DLL linking is different to Unix shared libraries since the link
>> is to a specific symbol in a specific DLL rather than to a symbol in any
>> old DLL the process happens to load, meaning that you can have multiple
>> copies of the runtime in one process without any upset so long as you
>> don't try to make the two copies talk to each other.
>
> "Multiple copies of the runtime"?!  What evil genius at Microsoft came 
> up with this fiendish way to make passing an *integer* file descriptor 
> unsafe?  Truly amazing.

That's absolutely nothing compared to that horror of Windows CE.

Vincent