C28604
warning C28604: Avoid calling SendMessageTimeout with SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG with a timeout of 0
The Code Analysis tool reports this warning when applications call SendMessageTimeout with the SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG flag and a time-out period of zero. Using SendMessageTimeout this way can be problematic because the time-out period has no effect, and the call is treated as a blocking call.
Specify a nonzero value for time-out period.
Example
The following function call can cause the process to not respond indefinitely.
fNeedsCallbackEvent = (0 != SendMessageTimeout(
_hwnd,
WM_NULL,
0,
0,
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG,
0,
&dwResult));
The following function call does not have this problem.
fNeedsCallbackEvent = (0 != SendMessageTimeout(
_hwnd,
WM_NULL,
0,
0,
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG,
1000,
&dwResult));