On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 14:30 +0200, Jan-Eric Duden wrote: > Win9X doesn't support the API async file operations. > WinNT/2K/XP does support it.
It supports everything it needs to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/waitformultipleobjects.asp it doesn't support async file NOTIFICATIONS, (afaik), but those aren't necessary... > Regarding threads: > > >Threads complicate things. People think they "understand threads" long > >before they actually do. Goto complicates things. People think they > >"understand goto" long before they actually do. > > That's a completely normal property of human nature. You should get used to > it. > This behavior is not limited to the issue of using thread or goto. > It applies to everything that needs some skill. > Most people just don't know what they can do or can't do until they fail. > Even if they fail they think they succeeded. > To make things worse, once you taught someone to know better, then someone > else will take his/her place. Agreed.
