Re: Patch to trunk: merge common code in hourglass impl

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:31:28 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
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> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Yes, atimers work by sending SIGALRM, which isn't supported on
> > Windows.  While Windows has equivalent functionality, no one stepped
> > forward to emulate atimers, probably because their use in Emacs is
> > quite limited, and in areas where Windows offers alternate ways of
> > doing the same.
> >   
> 
> What is the equivalent functionality? Threads are not the same as 
> signals, as they do not block other threads from executing.

I didn't mean threads, I meant SetWaitableTimer or one of its sibling
synchronization APIs.