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		gitroom 87 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial Oh man, I remember fighting with handle leaks back then too - that stuff was a rite of passage.

PlunderBunny 87 days ago [–]

I remember that on Win 9x, once you leaked too many handles, bitmaps and icons would just become black boxes.

adzm 87 days ago | [–]

This is still true; there are maximum limits on the number of open handles in a process.

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