Tool Help definitions in kernel32.def

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Jan 26 14:15:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:47:47PM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Danny Smith is proposing the following patch:
>
>--- kernel32.def.orig   Thu Oct 19 08:35:38 2000
>+++ kernel32.def        Tue Jan 09 09:00:26 2001
>@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ CreateSemaphoreW@16
> CreateTapePartition@16
> CreateThread@24
> CreateTimerQueue@0
>-CreateToolhelp32Snapshot@8
> CreateVirtualBuffer@12
> CreateWaitableTimerA@12
> CreateWaitableTimerW@12
>@@ -402,10 +401,6 @@ GlobalUnWire@4
> GlobalUnfix@4
> GlobalUnlock@4
> GlobalWire@4
>-Heap32First@12
>-Heap32ListFirst@8
>-Heap32ListNext@8
>-Heap32Next@4
> HeapAlloc@12
> HeapCompact@8
> HeapCreate@12
>---------------------------------------------------
>
>I don't necessarily disagree with this patch however, these are win95
>specific.  Were these functions actually in the Kernel32.dll on Win95? 
>If so, I feel that I can't apply the patch.  Any documentation for these
>have been removed from the msdn website.
>
>I would like others comments before applying.

Cygwin actually uses CreateToolhelp32Snapshot.  There *used* to be documentation
on these at msdn.microsoft.com.

cgf


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