Re: [PATCH] GnuTLS support on Woe32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 01:08:51 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 06:19, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Btw, why is it a good idea to return NULL if the library is already
> > loaded?  Why not return its handle instead?
> 
> [After taking a look at the code]  If the library has already been
> loaded, we don't know the handle. Once we locate the right library for
> a given symbol (image type, in all cases until now), we load the
> library and get the handle, initialize the function pointers, and
> promptly forget the handle again. We don't even remember the name
> under which the library was found. To return the handle in this case
> we would have either to cache it, or search again for the library and
> reload it. That is not useful, because w32_delayed_load() is used from
> init functions which are typically just called once. So I think it is
> better to leave it as is, until we determine that caching the handle
> has a use case.

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