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Re: Patch to trunk: merge common code in hourglass impl
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Patch to trunk: merge common code in hourglass impl |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:00:36 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:31:28 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Yes, atimers work by sending SIGALRM, which isn't supported on
> > Windows. While Windows has equivalent functionality, no one stepped
> > forward to emulate atimers, probably because their use in Emacs is
> > quite limited, and in areas where Windows offers alternate ways of
> > doing the same.
> >
>
> What is the equivalent functionality? Threads are not the same as
> signals, as they do not block other threads from executing.
I didn't mean threads, I meant SetWaitableTimer or one of its sibling
synchronization APIs.