The Old New Thing

Why does the Windows debugger engine show a bunch of hex digits after one of the DLL names?

January 31, 2022 Jan 31, 2022 01/31/22

Raymond Chen

It's trying to disambiguate name collisions.

How can I recognize whether two handles refer to the same underlying file?

January 28, 2022 Jan 28, 2022 01/28/22

Raymond Chen

Exploring several avenues, hoping one of them leads somewhere.

How can I recognize file systems that don’t support 64-bit unique file identifiers?

January 27, 2022 Jan 27, 2022 01/27/22

Raymond Chen

It's buried somewhere in the specification.

What are these weird internal Visual C++ runtime functions named NLG?

January 26, 2022 Jan 26, 2022 01/26/22

Raymond Chen

They are part of exception handling.

I deleted a file from Explorer, but it came back when I refreshed, and I get Access Denied if I try to delete it again

January 25, 2022 Jan 25, 2022 01/25/22

Raymond Chen

The file is circling the drain, but it's not gone yet.

The MainWindowHandle property is just a guess based on heuristics

January 24, 2022 Jan 24, 2022 01/24/22

Raymond Chen

If you really need to find your main window, you'll have to come up with something more determinstic.

Fixing the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation

January 21, 2022 Jan 21, 2022 01/21/22

Raymond Chen

Getting the order of evaluation to be what you want.

The mystery of the crash that seems to be on a std::move operation

January 20, 2022 Jan 20, 2022 01/20/22

Raymond Chen

But is that really what's happening?

The error code you get might not be the one you want

January 19, 2022 Jan 19, 2022 01/19/22

Raymond Chen

Some error codes are contractual, but most aren't.

How to write like Raymond: The typing-saver

January 18, 2022 Jan 18, 2022 01/18/22

Raymond Chen

One of my little catch phrases.