Feb 22, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 Why does IsPathRelative return FALSE for paths that are drive-relative? Raymond Chen It's complicated.
Feb 21, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I call freopen but open the file with shared access instead of exclusive access? Raymond Chen Coming through the back way.
Feb 8, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 What do the output values from CoGetApartmentType mean? Raymond Chen Four types of threads, possibly in the neutral apartment temporarily.
Feb 2, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 The case of the SRWLock violation in a thread pool work item Raymond Chen Application verifier tells the story.
Feb 1, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count2 Spurious wake-ups in Win32 condition variables Raymond Chen Another peek behind the curtain.
Jan 31, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I get a signature for a Windows system that will remain unchanged even if the user reinstalls Windows? Raymond Chen The SystemIdentification class will give you something.
Jan 26, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I reserve a range of address space and create nonzero memory on demand when the program reads or writes a page in the range, even when multithreading? Raymond Chen Some memory mapping magic.
Jan 25, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I reserve a range of address space and create nonzero memory on demand when the program reads or writes a page in the range? Raymond Chen Swizzle me this.
Jan 24, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 How can I reserve a range of address space and receive notifications when the program first reads or writes a page in the range? Raymond Chen Be in the exception handler chain.
Jan 19, 2018 Post comments count0 Post likes count1 A helper template function to wait for a Win32 condition variable in a loop Raymond Chen Another case of the spurious wake-up.