GlobalFlags API

[Bob Howard]

Anyone aware of any issues with the GlobalFlags API??

I have an application in use by many clients ... several under Vista ... and
edactly two users are consistently having a problem that I can pinpoint to a
function call to GlobalFlags.

Other clients are not having this problem. These two ge the problem
consistently.

I cannot reproduce this on my Vista testing computer.

bob

 

[Dave Wood [MS]]

I have no idea, but it sounds a bit like this issue where GlobalLock will
reject invalid data sometimes but not always:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2007/10/26/5681471.aspx

All I ever knew about GlobalXXX functions comes from these other postings by
Raymond Chen which are pretty worthwhile:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/04/252258.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/05/252856.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/08/253891.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/09/254441.aspx

Dave Wood