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RE: Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]
- To: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>,<cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 13:27:12 +1000
- Thread-Index: AcDCNwUvFM5zgV53Qt+pX6vuikuhlgAACEGw
- Thread-Topic: Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harold Hunt [mailto:huntharo@msu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Possibly incorrect explanation of how WaitForSomething
> works (and how to fix it) [RC and CGF please comment]
>
>
> Chris,
>
> > Ouch. I wasn't aware of this. Does this project actually belong in
> > the win32-x11 domain, then? Are you using CreateFile instead
> > of fopen,
> > ReadFile instead of read(), etc? If so, that means that all of the
> > cygwin mount table and other directory handling will be bypassed.
>
> Oh... uh... well... I haven't had to open a file yet, per se.
> Rather, I'm
> been calling functions like PeekMessage, DispatchMessage,
> IDirectDrawSurface_Blt, CreateDIBSection, etc.
>
> I don't really know that those have Cygwin counterparts :)
They dont :], And IMO shouldn'y have - that part of the X-Server should
be pure win32 calls... no argument !
Rob