Re: rpcrt4: Dynamically load iphlpapi

[Rob Shearman]

2008/8/10 Juan Lang <juan.lang(a)gmail.com>:
> > Why manually load iphlpapi here instead of using the automatic delayed
> > import mechanism like you used for ws2_32? I assume it was because you
> > reasoned that a hard dependency was unnecessary because the code has a
> > fallback path, but I think you needed to make this clear in the
> > changelog.
>
> I can try to make the changelog clearer, but that wasn't my
> motivation.  As I mentioned in the email with the patch, iphlpapi is
> only needed once per process by rpcrt4, so I manually load it so that
> I can also unload it as soon as it's done.  This is in contrast to
> ws2_32, where iphlpapi may be needed more than once.

Ah, yes, I missed that part. The patch is fine with me.

-- 
Rob Shearman