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The posted message queue vs the input queue vs the message queue

May 30, 2013 May 30, 2013 05/30/13

Raymond Chen

There are multiple ways of viewing the interaction between posted messages and input messages. MSDN prefers to view posted messages and input messages as part of one giant pool of messages in a message queue, with rules about which ones get processed first. I, on the other hand, prefer to think of posted messages and input messages as ...