Обсуждение: Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] fork/exec patch

>Isn't WaitForSingleObject() in effect a polling call?

It puts your thread to sleep, until it gets woken up by the handle
you're waiting on being set to a signalled state.

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Steve Tibbett
stibbett@zim.biz

Steve Tibbett wrote:

>>Isn't WaitForSingleObject() in effect a polling call?
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>It puts your thread to sleep, until it gets woken up by the handle
>you're waiting on being set to a signalled state.
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Right. Just like select() puts your thread to sleep until one of its
files is ready (or it times out).

Do we have a terminology problem here?

The point is that, unlike classic Unix signal programming, you need
*something* that explicitly checks for the event. It could be a separate
thread in a tight loop, which is what the CONNX code appears to do, or
it could conceivably be something else in the main thread with a very
short timeout.

cheers

andrew