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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:40:28 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: DEADBEEF in strace
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"Shaffer, Kenneth" wrote:
> 
> Is this DEADBEEF from windows something to worry about?

Take a look at the code.  The variable is initialized to that value,
probably to serve as a marker that it's never used.  It's not a return
value of any windows call.

Brian

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