The Old New Thing

A helper template function to wait for a Win32 condition variable in a loop

January 19, 2018 Jan 19, 2018 01/19/18

Raymond Chen

Another case of the spurious wake-up.

A helper template function to wait for WaitOnAddress in a loop

January 18, 2018 Jan 18, 2018 01/18/18

Raymond Chen

Because this is what you always have to do.

How do I know that Resource Monitor isnt just retaining a handle to the terminated process?

January 15, 2018 Jan 15, 2018 01/15/18

Raymond Chen

Let's try it again, with feeling.

Why don’t context menus respect the UI state for keyboard accelerators?

January 12, 2018 Jan 12, 2018 01/12/18

Raymond Chen

Well, technically, they're a separate window.

What does it mean when the documentation says that you must specify the app in the system’s metadata before you can retrieve Smbios­Information properties?

January 11, 2018 Jan 11, 2018 01/11/18

Raymond Chen

It's talking to a specific "you" that's not you.