How the NT Loader works- June 18, 2005 My team maintained the NT loader (the component that loads DLLs) for about a year or so during Windows XP as we were adding the isolated application features to it so we got quite an interesting perspective on this lovely little piece of technology. Warning to people who find themselves wanting to innovate in technology which has basically been left dormant and untouched for over a decade: be sure you have plenty of time to deal with the anthills you knock over! We don't own it any more...http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrier/archive/2005/06/18/430402.aspx Enough about in-memory models and transactions for now- June 1, 2005 I want to follow up on this topic of transactional behavior in memory but to motivate it I'm going to have to further discuss my other topics more about invariant restoration and (eventually) failure handling. The main point is this: there are potentially better ways to solve this overarching problem but there isn't a lot of coherent support for having a set of components which play together well. You can yourself take on this "transactional" mantra but unless there's deep support for it..http://blogs.msdn.com/mgrier/archive/2005/05/31/423677.aspx |