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26.0.50; Hang logging out of MS-Windows

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Message #74 received at 25875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#25875: 26.0.50; Hang logging out of MS-Windows
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:23:21 +0000

On 27 February 2017 at 19:16, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Richard Copley <rcopley <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:04:23 +0000
>> Cc: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>, 25875 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> >> > +static LRESULT WINAPI
>> >> > +DebugSendMessage (HWND hWnd, UINT Msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
>> >> > +{
>> >> > +  return SendMessageTimeoutA (hWnd, Msg, wParam, lParam, 0, 100, NULL);
>> >> > +}
>> >> > +
>> >> >  /* Start update of window W.  */
>> >> >
>> >> >  static void
>> >> >
>> >> > Ken
>> >>
>> >> Sorry Ken, I can't sabotage myself like that, I have work to do.
>> >
>> > This could be a misunderstanding: the above change is not supposed to
>> > sabotage anything, it's supposed to be a 100% compatible change for
>> > the current behavior when all threads are running, and also provide a
>> > "fire escape" when the addressee of the message is for some reason
>> > stuck, as we think happens in your scenario.
>>
>> >From the docs for SendMessageTimeout:
>>   "If the function succeeds, the return value is nonzero.".
>> We're going to cast that to HWND and pretend it's a scrollbar?
>
> No, the result is returned in the last argument of SendMessageTimeout
> (which shouldn't be NULL for getting hold of that, of course).

My point exactly.

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