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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2018-12-30 23:47:09 -0800
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2018-12-31 07:50:11 +0000
commita88d60509d1f80f7d8a206a64aa7084312b2f82e (patch)
tree46f27e85d386d9e0de666df855390f4529d8b006 /ui
parent67621a6ac24eadad90437049a4c6dd25adb9890f (diff)
Update the comment again.
The third URL works, but let's go https: for it. The other two don't. Line-wrap another part of the comment while we're at it. Change-Id: I744770c859b317ace2a71e82f86e2419b6d7ef2b Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/31276 Reviewed-by: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
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-rw-r--r--ui/win32/console_win32.c18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ui/win32/console_win32.c b/ui/win32/console_win32.c
index b0dffc1f68..edaa95286f 100644
--- a/ui/win32/console_win32.c
+++ b/ui/win32/console_win32.c
@@ -147,17 +147,23 @@ create_console(void)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms681952(v=vs.85).aspx
-and according to
+ (which now redirects to a docs.microsoft.com page that is
+ devoid of comments, and which is not available on the
+ Wayback Machine)
+
+ and according to
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/689696/installing-security-update-kb2507938-prevents-console-allocation
-and
+ (which has disappeared, and isn't available on the Wayback
+ Machine)
+
+ and
-http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/kb2567680-andor-kb2507938-breaks-attachconsole-api/e8191280-2d49-4be4-9918-18486fba0afa
+https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_update/kb2567680-andor-kb2507938-breaks-attachconsole-api/e8191280-2d49-4be4-9918-18486fba0afa
-(none of which are available any more, either at any obvious Microsoft site or
-on the Wayback Machine), even a failed attempt to attach to another process's
-console will cause subsequent AllocConsole() calls to fail, possibly due
+even a failed attempt to attach to another process's console
+will cause subsequent AllocConsole() calls to fail, possibly due
to bugs introduced by a security patch. To work around this, we
do a FreeConsole() first. */
FreeConsole();