Re: What does user mean?

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Bill Medland"  writes:
> I am working on the server code (adding the byte locking stuff) and down in
> the select/thread/object stuff I keep coming across the term "user" which
> seems to be synonymous with object.  What is it supposed to mean?  Why is an
> object a user?  How does it relate to a physical person or a windows process
> or whatever?

In that context "user" means an object that is a user of the select
facilities. It has nothing to do with Unix users or anything else,
it's purely internal to the select routines.