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Limitations
This section lists some known deficiencies and peculiarities of Winseed.
- Do not do a slow poll in a separate thread under NT. In a number of postings
on the Coderpunks mailing list certain bugs in the
RegQueryValueEx function were discussed (This function is used to read the
HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA key in the registry). These bugs lead to a crash if this
function is called in another thread than the main thread of your program. In other
words if your Windows NT application starts several threads do a slow poll
always in the main thread.
- The fast seeder ignores the internal seed size. See also WS_get_seed.
- Do not use any data returned by WS_get_seed as a random number without appropriate
post processing, see also Overview.
- Under Windows 95/98 the slow seeder output does not change very fast.
Therefore always use a fast seeder to supplement the slow seeder, see also
WS_create_instance.