Re: win32.lisp: why use full path to system dll?

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril <Wbr...@g-...> [2005-07-05 13:42:24 +0200]:
>
> modules/bindings/win32.lisp contains
> (defconstant system32 (ext:string-concat (ext:getenv "WINDIR") "\\system32\\"))
> (defconstant kernel32 (ext:string-concat system32 "kernel32.dll"))
>
> Why is this so?

2005-06-06  Sam Steingold  <sd...@gn...>

	* modules/bindings/win32/win32.lisp: use full paths for :LIBRARY
	arguments (needed on cygwin)

this also could be a matter of security.

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