7 Feb
2005
7 Feb
'05
10:24 p.m.
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
Ge van Geldorp wrote:
I am sorry that little library caused so much noise. I hope a long
explanation won't hurt you. I could not decide if it should be a static,
or a dynamic library (I should have sent it as static to Alex), or even
something else, but a few days ago I recalled what Alex himself quoted
about LPC - "Security through obscurity" - and I decided to make it
dynamic. It is ridiculously small, but it is the client side library for
clients of the Session Manager subsystem server. It is wat kernel32 is
for the W32 subsystem. This is a new concept, or an implicit one in the
NT architecture. Possibly, it is the obscurity brought by the implicit
idea of having environment servers running as clients of the session
manager, that has prevented, up to present days, anyone developing new
subsystems. MS made it a static library, I suppose, but I guess not
because it is that small. Examples of really small components are
csrss.exe (6144 bytes, in XPSP2IT), and csrsrv.dll (32768 bytes, in
XPSP2IT: this one is the server #0 that csrss hosts and was removed in
NT 4.0, but was reborn in NT 5.x). As csrsrv.dll shows up again since NT
5.0, I deduced I had not to put smdll code in ntdll.
I actually don't know what is the right place for this code, because it
does not exist in a visible library in The Real Thing, but I chose that
place for coherence with other subsystems.
At present, code is unfinished and off main line also in smss,
therefore, moving it to a proper place is to you.
I think you are acting unbelievably rude here.
Please revert your
change and
discuss this on the mailinglist first.
You're right, I apologize for moving it without permission. If anyone
or if the majority thinks this change was right, someone may do it
again, I'm not going to anymore. Same applies for epsapi and expat.