wineboot: Pass non-zero timeouts to SendMessageTimeout, otherwise the call won't timeout.

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Wed Sep 19 13:43:45 CDT 2007


Robert Shearman <rob at codeweavers.com> writes:

> The original code seems to have been designed to not wait at all, but
> this got changed by a user32 commit that made a timeout of zero behave
> as INFINITE.

I don't think so, AFAICT it has always been supposed to wait (except
with the SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG flag).

> So which should it be - no timeout or timeout followed by a dialog to
> carry on waiting or kill the process?

Either is OK, though a timeout followed by a dialog is better. What's
not OK is a timeout and then a kill while the user might be trying to
save the file.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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