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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: adrian.b.robert@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to trunk: merge common code in hourglass impl
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:00:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4munxjv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484709B0.9060804@gnu.org>

> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:31:28 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> CC: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, adrian.b.robert@gmail.com, 
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 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.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04  0:05 Patch to trunk: merge common code in hourglass impl Adrian Robert
2008-06-04  5:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-04  9:31   ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-04 16:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-04 17:31     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-06-04 21:31       ` Jason Rumney
2008-06-04 21:38         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-06 20:00         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-07-15  0:46         ` Adrian Robert
2008-07-15  1:41           ` Stefan Monnier

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