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re: Where did the research project RedShark get its name?
I spent my youth as a theoretical physicist, so my favorite project code name is "Spherical Cow" for Fedora 18.
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re: How can I move an HTREEITEM to a new parent?
@Smouch: Why do all this? If you know the target Tree-View layout you can easily synthesize comparison function for TreeView_SortChildrenCB.
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re: How can I move an HTREEITEM to a new parent?
Ah, sorry, read your comment again. Please disregard my previous think-o.
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
But why read the documentation when you can randomly ask strangers for help?
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
If the Read/Write functions were split you could not use the "overlapped with synchronous handle" trick so I guess it's a good thing the design stayed this way. People just need to RTFM.Read/WriteFile...
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
It would be easy to make the parameter truly optional. A simpleDWORD dummy;if (!lpNumberOfBytesRead) lpNumberOfBytesRead = &dummy;in the function would suffice.
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re: Where did the research project RedShark get its name?
When we started my current company we decided we wanted our project names to have a theme. After casting around for a bit we decided on rock bands. We figured this had many advantages:1. A near-endless...
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The difference in behavior with consoles is because ReadFile and WriteFile have a total hack for console I/O. Consoles are assigned fake HANDLE values that WriteFile specifically recognizes, and...
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@jpa: I think it is better that it crash. Otherwise it will lead to problems I find in Posix programs all the time. If the programmer ignores the bytes value from read() or write(), and assumes that...
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
@jpa:"...until the second man questions him."
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
@Zan Lynx':Or the simple case of being at the end of file and the file not being an exact multiple of the size you specified to read.@Myria:That isn't quite right, the handles are actually recognised...
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re: How can I move an HTREEITEM to a new parent?
@Antonio 'Grijan': Possibly the fact that Windows 95 had to run in 4MB of RAM, and be sufficiently responsive on a 40MHz 386DX, is why TreeView doesn't support re-parenting an item. If items can be...
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
@WndSks: 'just need to RTFM' - the trouble is that busy developers don't read the manual, or don't read it thoroughly enough, particularly for functions they 'know' how to use. The trouble with...
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re: How do I wait until all processes in a job have exited?
Please note the ability to use job for waiting for a process tree is actually an abuse of the system. Your code cannot use it if some other piece of code is using it to monitor you becaue jobs do not...
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re: How do I wait until all processes in a job have exited?
Exercise: JOBOBJECT_ASSOCIATE_COMPLETION_PORT structure: "The system sends messages to the I/O completion port associated with a job when certain events occur. If the job is nested, the message is sent...
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re: How do I wait until all processes in a job have exited?
Seems the lack of the word "only" is a source of confusion."The state of a job object is set to signaled ONLY when all of its processes are terminated ONLY because the specified end-of-job time limit...
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re: Don't forget, the fourth parameter to ReadFile and WriteFile is sometimes...
> In practice all synchronous buffered ReadFile operations that target a block device (i.e. a disk) will return the amount of data you asked for.I've seen it not do that. Now WriteFile on the other...
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re: How do I wait until all processes in a job have exited?
Jobs would very good tool.. If they wouldn't be half-cooked. Every time I tried to use them I faced with some very stupid problems. Like unability to nest jobs ('fixed' in Win8) or unfixable...
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re: How do I wait until all processes in a job have exited?
I wonder whether using the job handle as the completion key is entirely reliable. I mean, the child process does not inherit the job handle, so if the child process also calls CreateJobObject, I'm...
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re: Some trivia about the //build/ 2011 conference
The year is 2005 and I just started working for Siemens Automotive VDO (defunct now, Siemens sold it's automotive division meanwhile) and I got "shipped" directly to work for the immobilizer for Mazda...
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