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The terrifying result of having ABI compatibility with the first commercially successful system of its kind from the '80s. Granted, they aren't doing themselves any favours with their new straight-jacket style application ABI.
This is a regression. The article shows it worked fine up to Windows 7.
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Then why are you commenting? Kind of a crappy attitude you have there.
not really, I was kinda expecting the post would also contain interactions with Microsoft, leading to the resolution of the bug in update XX. The post kinda left me unsatisfied.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then why are you commenting? Kind of a crappy attitude you have there.
not really, I was kinda expecting the post would also contain interactions with Microsoft, leading to the resolution of the bug in update XX. The post kinda left me unsatisfied.
The terrifying result of having ABI compatibility with the first commercially successful system of its kind from the '80s. Granted, they aren't doing themselves any favours with their new straight-jacket style application ABI.
I read mouse as house and was confused for the longest time.
The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers could do, this would certainly have been on the list.
Now, 30 years later, whenever my cursor gets stuck I like to think:
"If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption..."
Should/does the author wait getting some traction on Hacker News and hopefully be noticed by dev at Microsoft, or is there some way to provide Microsoft directly these data, skipping Tier-1 support ?
The author seem to be working at Google, so he might get some leverage from that, but what about Random Joe ? Keep enjoying the bug "forever", I guess ?
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Then why are you commenting? Kind of a crappy attitude you have there.
not really, I was kinda expecting the post would also contain interactions with Microsoft, leading to the resolution of the bug in update XX. The post kinda left me unsatisfied.
Regardless the author may not know how critical Microsoft has classified this issue. It could be something they don't resolve for years. Since the Microsoft investigation and possible patch has no barring on the content of this article I wouldn't expect it to be held until such a time.
I'm sure we'll get a follow up on HN when or if it gets patched. Even better maybe posting this article helps get it fixed sooner :)
I was wondering what ETW is, and found in one of his other posts: ETW (Event Tracing for Windows). He seems to be one of the main contributors of https://github.com/google/UIforETW Seems to be quite useful. --- About the post: tl;dr: NtGdiCloseProcess has a system-wide global lock which is used quite often e.g. during a build of Chrome which spawns a lot of processes. This problem seems to be introduced between Windo…
I grew up on the Commodore 64 (1 Core, 1 hyper-thread :-), almost 1 MHz clock freq, almost 64 K usable RAM). The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers cou…