[x265] FR: Postpone Windows 10 update reboots during encodes by signaling "busy"?

[Pradeep Ramachandran]

I would think that this is something that the application should do and not
the library.
Pradeep.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Michael Lackner <
michael.lackner at unileoben.ac.at> wrote:

> I'm also interested actually, because I've had this happen to me just a
> few days ago,
> losing almost a day of work because of Windows 10 rebooting in the middle
> of the night...
>
> This is an issue for people who don't have administrative privileges on
> their machines to
> stop Windows 10 from doing this.
>
> On 06/25/2018 09:03 AM, Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer wrote:
> > No opinion yet?
> >
> >
> > Mario *LigH* Rohkrämer schrieb am 13.06.2018 um 08:35:
> >> Request by 'Stereodude' in the doom9 forum:
> >>
> >> https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1844407#post1844407
> >>
> >> +----
> >> Is there any way to x265 to let Windows know that it's busy encoding to
> prevent a
> >> Windows update from rebooting the PC during an encode? I thought I read
> before that
> >> there's a way for an application to let the OS know it's "busy" so that
> it won't reboot
> >> while the application is crunching away.
> >>
> >> Currently Windows 10 will happily reboot mid x264 or x265 encode even
> if the CPU is
> >> pegged at 100%.
> >> +----
> >>
> >> I wonder if you could use the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate function to
> postpone it:
> >>
> >> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> aa376877%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> >>
> >> And which window handle would you use for a CLI application?
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