Time to time I read The Old New Thing blog (authored by Raymond Chen, one of Microsoft old-timers). On his brilliant notes, he often describes pathetic customers who observe unexpected Windows API behavior and pretend this is Microsoft's bug. What a naive people, I would exclaim. And every time few paragraphs later Raymond Chen explains that root of such issue is the customer failure: neglection to documentation details, wrong assumptions etc. Ironically, I got pretty strange behavior at WinSock API recently. So what should be my first reaction? Indeed, I started from myself...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Detective story: sendto() and 10014 WSAEFAULT error
Time to time I read The Old New Thing blog (authored by Raymond Chen, one of Microsoft old-timers). On his brilliant notes, he often describes pathetic customers who observe unexpected Windows API behavior and pretend this is Microsoft's bug. What a naive people, I would exclaim. And every time few paragraphs later Raymond Chen explains that root of such issue is the customer failure: neglection to documentation details, wrong assumptions etc. Ironically, I got pretty strange behavior at WinSock API recently. So what should be my first reaction? Indeed, I started from myself...
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