The Old New Thing

Microspeak: Light reading (ironic)

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23

Raymond Chen

Just a fun diversion.

The case of the mysterious "out of bounds" error from CreateUri and memmove

February 20, 2023 Feb 20, 2023 02/20/23

Raymond Chen

Unfolding some COMDATs.

What happens if you co_await a std::future, and why is it a bad idea?

February 17, 2023 Feb 17, 2023 02/17/23

Raymond Chen

Just waiting for something to finish.

What does it mean when my cross-thread COM call fails with RPC_E_SYS_CALL_FAILED?

February 16, 2023 Feb 16, 2023 02/16/23

Raymond Chen

Look for an unresponsive recipient.

What are the potentially-erroneous results if you don’t pass NULL as the lpNumberOfBytesRead when issuing overlapped I/O?

February 15, 2023 Feb 15, 2023 02/15/23

Raymond Chen

It's to avoid a self-inflicted race condition.

Why are the Windows chassis hardware button hotkeys so strange?

February 14, 2023 Feb 14, 2023 02/14/23

Raymond Chen

Operating within the constraints of the system.

Adventures in application compatibility: The case of the display control panel crash on exit

February 13, 2023 Feb 13, 2023 02/13/23

Raymond Chen

When you get a 64-bit pointer, you probably should remember all 64 of the bits.

The case of the RPC_E_DISCONNECTED error thrown from await_resume

February 10, 2023 Feb 10, 2023 02/10/23

Raymond Chen

You can keep trying, but the result won't change.

A more direct and mistake-free way of creating a process in a job object

February 9, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 02/9/23

Raymond Chen

A new attribute for creating a process directly in a job object.

How can I get the original target of a shortcut without applying any 32-bit adjustments?

February 8, 2023 Feb 8, 2023 02/8/23

Raymond Chen

Disable the fancy tracking.