On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, joe wrote: > Again, there are valid uses of GetTickCount and there are safe ways of doing > so. If there is concern, I do recommend testing functionality associated > with each of the DLLs. You might find a bug you can report for kudos. > > On the incident, I would guess the vendor never had a clue it would do that. > > > That function can't return more than 49.7 days without breaking every app > that currently uses it. MS can not do that. That is why there is another > function to get the info with a different datatype. See my other posts. >
What seems to read clearly from your replies to this thread is that either; 1> the code was better done under the original OS, unix 2> considering "how often" you seems to run into this same issue with other coders in the windows realm, windows coders tend to be especially lazy/clueless as compared to coders in other OS' 3> tools to code with in the windows realm are not as developed/functional as they are in other envs 4> M$ does not properly provide developers with clued information with which to do their jobs >From which you can combine any or all of the above for a correct interpretation of the total of your replies. Thanks, Ron DuFresne -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html