[BRLTTY] using BrlApi with Visual Studioj

[Samuel Thibault]

James Teh, le Thu 20 Nov 2008 02:59:26 +1000, a écrit :
> On 20/11/2008 2:25 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > On windows, openConnection does return the HANDLE, so you can
> > WaitForMultipleObjects on it...
> I don't think WaitForSingleObject and WaitForMultipleObjects will work 
> on a named pipe. The documentation for these functions doesn't list 
> these as waitable objects. It certainly doesn't work at present; I tried 
> WaitForSingleObject on the handle and it always returns immediately 
> without waiting.

Gargl. Damn windows API :/

> I've read on forums that you might be able to get it to work by opening 
> the named pipe on the client side with the SYNCHRONIZE flag, but I'm not 
> sure if this actually works. I believe the *correct* (but painful) way 
> is to use overlapped IO and get an event object which can then be waited on.

Which completely changes the way to return that "waitable" thing, pff...
I'll see.

Samuel