On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: > On 07/18/2012 05:49 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote: >> >> >> Is it possible that this results in flaky behavior depending on >> third-party software installed? >> > > Well, MSDN clearly states: > <quote> > Note: The function pointer for the AcceptEx function must be obtained > at run time by making a call to the WSAIoctl function ... > </quote> > > If I understand English grammar correctly *must* is something > you can't interpret at will. > > However whether this is a reason for a flaky behaviour or not > is a question. But in any case the statement "must be obtained" > is a pretty clear.
Yeah, I agree completely on "must", and I'll try to fix that Real Soon Now. On the rest, I was just mumbling that I saw a potential connection between an API that (unexpectedly) you are supposed to obtain dynamically and past reports of failures in the use of that API in some configurations supposedly involving third-party software that developers can't readily reproduce. (unclear to me how much of this is urban legend) > > > Regards > -- > ^TM > > -- Born in Roswell... married an alien... http://emptyhammock.com/
