full-disclosure - Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

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From: dufresne at winternet.com (Ron DuFresne)
Subject: Windoze almost managed to 200x repeat 9/11

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
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