Re: Oracle's method of locating its DLLs

From: DriftWood <drift_wood_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:05:49 GMT
Message-ID: <94s3o6$pcq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

When a DLL is loaded in windows, if the standard LoadLibrary() call is used without specifying an explicit path... etc... The OS will hunt for the library by looking in the following places:

\WINDOWS\SYSTEM(32)
\WINDOWS
\... os search path

Thus if a copy of the DLL exists in the SYSTEM32 directory it will be loaded in preference to another copy that exists on the OS search path.

Personally, I always thought it would have been better coding on Oracle's part to use an explicit path to the ORACLE_HOME\Bin directory.

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Received on Fri Jan 26 2001 - 09:05:49 CST