* Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Christian Ullrich <chris@chrullrich.net> wrote:
>> * Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> In order to avoid any problems with the load and unload windows, my
>>> bet goes for 0001, 0002 and 0003, with the last two patches merged
>>> together, 0001 being only a set of independent fixes. That's ugly, but
>>> that looks the safest course of actions. I have rebased/rewritten the
>>> patches as attached. Thoughts?
>>
>> In lieu of convincing you to drop the entire thing, yes, that looks about
>> right, except for the BOOL thing.
>
> Yes, right. Thanks. Patch 0001 is definitely something that should be
> applied and backpatched, the CloseHandle() call is buggy. Now 0002 and
> 0003 are improving things, but there have been no reports regarding
> problems in this area, so this could just be applied to master I
> guess. Christian, does that sound right?
Yes.
> By the way, how is it decided that a DLL gets unloaded in a process if
> it is not pinned? Is that something the OS decides?
Reference counting in LoadLibrary() and FreeLibrary(), among other
places. For example, GetModuleHandleEx() (but not the non-Ex) will by
default increment the counter.
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Christian