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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 06:39:27 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:30:16 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

> On 3/10/2025 8:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:01:16 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3/10/2025 4:21 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:45:51 -0700, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 3/10/2025 2:42 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> It’s a blocking call:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        This function associates a thread with the specified
>>>>>>        completion port. A thread can be associated with at most one
>>>>>>        completion port.
>>>>>
>>>>> did you notice the timeout parameter?
>>>>
>>>> That leads to busy-waiting.
>>>
>>> It can be blocking ...
>> 
>> Yes, we already covered that.
> 
> So, that's that. There is no busy wait.

There is if you don’t want to block.