RE: hWaitForInput and timeouts

2004-10-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03 October 2004 19:34, Peter Simons wrote: I have another I/O problem. I need to time out when a Handle blocks forever. I am using hWaitForInput anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem, but the documentation says that using this feature will block all IO threads? Is it much work to fix

hWaitForInput and timeouts

2004-10-03 Thread Peter Simons
Hi, I have another I/O problem. I need to time out when a Handle blocks forever. I am using hWaitForInput anyway, so that shouldn't be a problem, but the documentation says that using this feature will block all IO threads? Is it much work to fix this? I _could_ forkIO a racer thread myself, of