May 2, 2011

Hidden compatibility constraints of redirecting program execution via a stub

May 2, 2011 May 2, 2011 05/2/11

Raymond Chen

One of the "obvious" solutions to the issue of how much work you're willing to do to save 68KB of disk space was to replace one of the copies with a stub that launches the other copy. If you try this obvious solution, you may run into some compatibility issues. First of all, there are programs which launch Notepad and then wait on the ...

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Hidden compatibility constraints of redirecting program execution via a stub