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to: Phil Crown
from: James R. Cook
date: 1997-01-09 18:48:48
subject: DosRead blocking

-=> Quoting Phil Crown to James R. Cook <=-



 JRC> But does this make a huge deal?  I disremember what SIO uses for

 JRC> buffers, but I would imagine that it's more than adequate.



 PC> IMHO: if you want to throw something togather real fast then don't use

 PC> threads, if you want to do it right, then use threads! :-)



 :)  I understand.  *sigh*  Is there an alternative to using Mutex

 semaphores?  They seem to take a *LONG* time to lock/unlock (or is that

 block/unblock).  I recall seeing some code that used the DosEnterCritSec

 or something like that to update the global buffers.  That's not "right"

 but it seemed to be more efficient.



 ={) James (}=



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