It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Booting into another operating system
March 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20It's not your computer any more.
March 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20March 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
March 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20The history of defect tracking databases in Windows.
The Windows Runtime IDL compiler lets you abbreviate some interface names
March 16, 2020Mar 16, 202003/16/20But only a few of them.
Providing a better error message when someone tries to use std::vector<bool> as a buffer
March 13, 2020Mar 13, 202003/13/20Defer the problem further.
Of what use is a type-dependent expression that is always false?
March 12, 2020Mar 12, 202003/12/20Deferring an assertion to instantiation.
How can I create a type-dependent expression that is always false?
March 11, 2020Mar 11, 202003/11/20Use information that you know to be true (or false).
The sad but short story of the SM_AccessoriesName registry value
March 10, 2020Mar 10, 202003/10/20Another victim of programs that reach into undocumented sections of the registry.
Why does MS-DOS put an int 20h at byte 0 of the COM file program segment?
March 9, 2020Mar 9, 202003/9/20In case you end up there, but how?
Why do people take a lock around CreateProcess calls?
March 6, 2020Mar 6, 202003/6/20Managing your inheritance.
Can I wait for a kernel event to become unsignaled?
March 5, 2020Mar 5, 202003/5/20Not directly, but maybe you can simulate it.
Old New Thing
Pulling sleight of hand tricks in a security vulnerability report, or maybe it was a prank
April 1, 2020Apr 1, 202004/1/20Something up my sleeve.
Why am I ignoring my second monitor? A case study in working from home.
March 31, 2020Mar 31, 202003/31/20Settling into the new routine has its rough spots.
A sneaky way to make sure nobody assigns test failures to your team
March 30, 2020Mar 30, 202003/30/20Buffer overflow.
Are Windows Runtime asynchronous operations guaranteed to complete?
March 27, 2020Mar 27, 202003/27/20As much as anything is guaranteed to complete.
If you say that your minimum requirements are the Universal contract, then you need to probe for anything beyond that
March 26, 2020Mar 26, 202003/26/20Reaching beyond your declaration.
How can I check whether a Windows Runtime object supports a member before I try to use it?
March 25, 2020Mar 25, 202003/25/20You can sniff at the metadata.
Accessing a member of a Windows Runtime class raises an InvalidCastException / throws a hresult_no_interface, what does this mean?
March 24, 2020Mar 24, 202003/24/20It's interfaces under the hood.
Why not just share a single event across all critical section?
March 23, 2020Mar 23, 202003/23/20How will you know when the thundering herd has calmed down?
The security check happens at the acquisition of the handle
March 20, 2020Mar 20, 202003/20/20Once you buy a handle, it's yours to keep.
Further refinements to the attempt to create a type-dependent expression that is always false
March 19, 2020Mar 19, 202003/19/20It still falls down, but for stranger reasons.