Corinna Vinschen writes:
> . . .
> We're working on a new release of rebase anyway. This new release
> checks for writability and prints just a warning without stopping
> dead in its track:
>
> /usr/bin/foo.dll: skipped because not writable
> Otherwise, what we can do is to open the file with
> FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS. This would allow you to rebase DLLs
> without write permissions if you have admin privileges.
A combination of the two would be best, I think. That is, try
FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS, so for Admins it will work, and if _that_
fails print the message.
Thanks,
ht
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