[bf1942] Linux server status update 2003-04-28

[Daniel E. Atencio Psille]

Should life be that easy ? *g* Intersteing anyway, could be my beginning
into C/C++ :) I always expected tasks like this being much more complex and
difficult ...

> That's pretty simple: You create a library with a known name (say, 
> BF_logging.so or BF_logging.dll) and known entry 
> points/signatures (say, 
> BeginLogging, EndLogging, and WriteLogRecord). Anyone can 
> write this DLL. [...]
> 
> The linking happens automagically as part of normal program 
> execution on 
> each platform. No special work needs to happen there. (I'm 
> not proposing a 
> dynamically-loaded DLL, just one that can be overwritten 
> before execution.)