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- From: philc@aruba.uucp (Phil Calvin)
- Subject: Re: Porting X applications to NT/Win32
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.183324.18184@aruba.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:33:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.161921.17376@medusa.prime.com> <1992Dec22.013247.22651@microsoft.com>
- Organization: Project Zed
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- In article <1992Dec22.013247.22651@microsoft.com> johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall) writes:
- >Windows 3.x certainly does, and I believe Windows NT will allow
- >it as well though I'm not 100% certain.
- >
- >Try it. Get a DC, pass to another process, and use it to draw
- >on the original window.
- >
-
- Huh??
-
- Doesn't that violate the NT security model?? I was under the
- assumption that anything that was given to a particular process
- was local to that process.
-
- One of the examples I have seen is a direct contraction to your
- statement. (I believe it was at the GDI overview in the July
- rollout)
-
- Phil
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