The Old New Thing

June 1, 2009 - The Old New Thing

Whew, I’m not doing *that* again!

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Raymond Chen
When I met Sara Ford at the 2008 PDC, I got to talk to her author-a-author. I asked her how the book-writing experience was. "I'm never doing that again!" she replied. Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it, too. Steve Makofsky agrees. (Though, to be fair, what Sara was not going to do was write a book in three months, as opposed ...

Why does the CreateProcess function modify its input command line?

June 1, 2009 Jun 1, 2009 06/1/09
Raymond Chen
One of the nasty gotchas of the function is that the parameter must be a mutable pointer. If you pass a pointer to memory that cannot be written to (for example, a pointer to a page that is marked ), then you might crash. Commenter Ritchie wonders why this parameter is so weird. Basically, somebody back in the 1980's wanted to avoid ...