Re: [PATCH 5/5] quartzdrv: Implement MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx and initial Carbon event handling.

[Alexandre Julliard]

Pierre d'Herbemont  writes:
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>    DWORD remaining_timeout = timeout;
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>    DWORD acceptable_timeout;
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>    /* We can't remain too long without a carbon call,
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>       or the application seems to hang for the user */
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>    do {
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>        if(remaining_timeout > 50 || remaining_timeout == INFINITE)
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>            acceptable_timeout = 50;
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>        else
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>            acceptable_timeout = remaining_timeout;
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>        ret = WaitForMultipleObjectsEx( count, handles, flags & MWMO_WAITALL,
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>                                    acceptable_timeout, flags & MWMO_ALERTABLE );

I don't think polling is an acceptable way to wait for events. You
really need to get a file descriptor or some other handle that you can
wait on.