At 16:25 16/12/2000 +0000, Simon P. Lucy wrote: >At 12:43 16/12/2000 +0000, rvj wrote: >>Belated - many thanks for reply >> >>I had been thinking along the lines of a totally chrome driven application >>shell. >> >>I had assumed access to DLLs within JARS possible, but impractical for >>preformance reasons. >> >>i.e. a single external DLL which redirects access to the appropriate DLL >>within one or more JARs (decompress/load DLL on the fly) >> >>But this sound like your private file system solution? > >It does but remember that for DLLs to be loaded they have to be visible to >the user loading them, whether its in a private file system or not. The >only real advantage of private file systems is where you need a very >efficient storage granularity, because once they are mounted they are >available to all. There are, of course, entirely private file systems but you can't have system objects in DLLs in there. Well I guess you could keep them in there, copy them out to a regular file system before they are needed and then delete them afterwards. I'm not sure as I see the point of that though. Simon
