Re: Unable to remove hooked DLL

From:
"Doug Harrison [MVP]" <dsh@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:22:03 -0500
Message-ID:
<1glou3pcl6gaq3dn6o2clfspmjfea5dh5h@4ax.com>
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:11:47 +0800, "bucher" <bucher@xxxx.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have a dll which can install a global hook. There are two functions:
InstallHook() and UninstallHook(). With InstallHook() the caller can install
the hook. With UninstallHook() the caller can unhook the DLL.

I want to delete the dll after calling UninstallHook(). But sometimes the
dll can't be deleted. I want to know why I can't delete the dll after unhook
the dll.

The code like this:

static HHOOK hhook = NULL;

BOOL InstallHook()
{
hhook = ::SetWindowsHookEx( WH_SHELL , HookProc hDllModule, 0);
if ( hhook == NULL ){
 return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}

BOOL UninstallHook()
{
::UnhookWindowsHookEx( hhook );
hhook = NULL;
return TRUE;
}

Is there any problem in my code? Thanks in advanced.


I do this after unhooking my global mouse hook:

   // The following helps hooked applications unmap the hook DLL.
   DWORD_PTR res;
   SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST,
         WM_NULL, 0, 0, SMTO_NORMAL, 1000, &res);

--
Doug Harrison
Visual C++ MVP

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