Subj : Re: waitformultipleobjects() on several semaphores ?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Neill Clift [MSFT]
Date : Fri Feb 04 2005 08:53 am

"Joseph Seigh" <jseigh_01@xemaps.com> wrote in message 
news:opsln87xpcbs6ffg@grunion...
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:04:27 +0100, mandatory <okllsam@nptklooohs.ru> 
> wrote:
>
> The bWaitAll parameter must be set to FALSE so that the wait will return
> if any of the wait objects have been signaled.  You'll have the check the
> return code to correctly identify which semaphore got signaled.  If
> Microsoft's WaitForMultipleObjects implementation allows for more than
> one semaphore signal to get consumed on a wait any option then you'll have
> to find another solution.  I don't think it would allow that.  That
> would be pretty stupid, even for Microsoft.
>

The API will only create one side effect in the list of objects for a wait
any call. So you would own one mutex or consume one semaphore
release etc.

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