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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ClearSight/GPL update

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 15:03:28 -0700
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 02:56:38PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> The impression I have is that an OLE server (Ethereal is presumably
> acting as an OLE server) can either be "in-process", in which case it's
> a DLL and requests from the client to the server are done by loading the
> DLL if it's not already loaded and calling code in the DLL, or
> "out-of-process", in which case it's a separate executable and some
> interprocess message channel is used to convey the request and the
> results.

See

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnolegen/html/msdn_inproc.asp