Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 13:11:17 12/05/00
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On December 05, 2000 at 16:10:15, Andrew Dados wrote: >On December 05, 2000 at 12:37:02, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On December 05, 2000 at 10:28:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>this is not nonsense. blocking is GARANTUEED by windows. >>>See the microsoft documents on it. they GARANTUEE blocking to >>>prevent parallel problems. >> >>Are you telling me that if I get a mouse button click message from Windows, and >>do something outrageously expensive before returning from that message, that my >>engine threads will block until I return? >> >>bruce > >I don't think so, however under windows only main thread should do GUI access >(drawing, dispatching input). > >This is because many functions in windows kernel determines tasks by esp oeps.. I mean ss (stack segment) of the >caller and it would be confused when called from some other, then main thread. > >-Andrew-
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