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Make asynchronous call in PHP

The problem is, that there is no standard way of making asynchronous function or other calls in PHP version 5. In search for async calls I found, that socket version works for me. Here is link to example from W-Shadow.com: How To Run A PHP Script In The Background

Windows API Function SetFileAttributes silently ignores compressed and encrypted attributes

When you call Windows API function SetFileAttributes, it ignores FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED (0x800) and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED (0x4000) values passed as parameters. Most likely it is implemented in this way, because you can pass value from GetFileAttributes, FindFirstFile and FindNextFile without modifications to SetFileAttributes. This applies to Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 / 2008, Windows Vista.

STL breaks after installing Microsoft Security Advisory 973882

After installing through Microsoft Update Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) Could Allow Remote Code Execution STL broke with the following error: c:\program files\microsoft visual studio 9.0\vc\include\xutility(2764) : error C3861: ‘_Swap_adl’: identifier not found Most probably, this is caused by accidentally deleted the following function: template inline void _Swap_adl(_Ty& _Left, _Ty& _Right) { // …

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