Re: Signals on Win32 (yet again)

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Maybe. I'm not quite convinced of that yet - we can SleepEx with a
very
> small timeout, no? There must be a few critical places the call could
be
> made, which would in effect just delay delivery of the signal for a
very
> short time to some convenient sequence point.

Actually, you don't need any timeout at all.
WaitForSingleObject(INFINITE) keeps on running if the event object is
kept signaled, so performance is not an issue.  We can use 'manual'
events to keep the Event object open all the time unless explicitly
turned off via a signal thread.

Implementation difficulties aside, what is more attractive from an
aesthetic standpoint?  Releasing (and supporting) a 100 line binary
kernel driver for win32 or adding polling to the source in all the key
loops?

Merlin