<OT> MS finally gets a little smarter

[James McDonald]

>The vision for Windows Update V5 is to provide an efficient and effective 
>means to keep all Microsoft products secure and up to date with the latest 
>patches, starting with Windows, Office, SQL, and Exchange.
>
>looks like you'll *finally* be able to go to windowsupdate and actually update 
>everything. Not windowsupdate for this and officeupdate for that, and technet 
>for everything else..
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>
Actually the new .Net framework finally covers the dll hell problems 
i.e. you can multiple versions of a dll so the newest dll doesn't break 
an application.

My question is:

Lets say you had two versions of libmytestlib.so in /usr/lib and 
/usr/local/lib how do you tell it to pick up one particular library over 
another...

I presume LD_LIBRARY_PATH is parsed left to right but what happens when 
you want to explicitly assign individual libs ?

Ohh and BTW barefeet and a hot cow pat can be heaven on a cold morning.

-- 
James McDonald
(Would you like fries with that MCSE?)

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