October 2006 - Posts

• Slim Reader Writer Locks

  In a recent internal thread, there's been some good discussion about the new Slim Reader Writer locks in Vista. See the SRWLockXXX functions for details. A brief synopis of the key points about these locks: Since XP, there's a new intra -process synchronization Read More... Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:22 AM by Matt Pietrek | 2 Comments

• Humorous comment of the day

  I saw this comment in a design spec, and it made me laugh: TEST NOTE: Please test that we don’t accidentally blast the LastError value; few error messages are more frustrating than “Error: The operation completed successfully.” Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:15 PM by Matt Pietrek | 0 Comments

• New Synchronization APIs in Vista

  Somehow in my heads down mode lately, I haven't had a chance to monitor all the new Win32 API goodies that Vista brings to the table. A friend just mailed me a question about one of these functions, which set off a little research jag. The short story, Read More... Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 5:41 PM by Matt Pietrek | 0 Comments

• Typo in WinBase.H (RTL_CRITICAL_SECTION_NO_DEBUG_INFO)

  Yes, it's been awhile since my last post. While I've been busy on lots of interesting work, nothing blog-worthy. A friend just reported this minor issue to me, and it was confirmed by some folks in Windows. In the latest SDK headers, you'll find the following: Read More... Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:23 PM by Matt Pietrek | 0 Comments