I’ve always wondered (and again two days ago) what “irreversible loss of information” is being referd to when you reset a local user password from the “Computer Management” console. Independantly, I’ve been tracking down a bug reported by one PMG Connect user in which the connection routine fails.
These things are linked. The bug was a call [...]
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Posted in C++, Windows, Windows API on August 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Block Sock Block
Posted in C++, Sockets, Windows, Windows API on August 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
WinHttpGetProxyForUrl also blocks. This is despite the documentation saying that it won’t if you close the handle during it’s operation. (Let’s face it, Microsoft programmers often have a very loose sense of the meaning of block, what’s a minute or two.) Anyway, this called for a generic class for blocking things (see previous post re [...]
