> > There is a similar problem here with timeouts passd to > > WaitForSingleObjectEx, and WaitForMultipleObjectsEx. I was > > thinking of generating a patch that does a single retry when > > a Wait* times out. Is the consensus that this would be useful or not? > > I think it depends on *where* the Wait* function is called. In various > pthread calls for instance, we should not retry - because the timeouts > are passed in as absolute values, not as elapsed values. That's true, but I was thinking primarily about internal synchronisation calls.
Hmm - I wonder why those values were made absolute though. Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
