[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] Win32 port

Charles Lecklider boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Mon Dec 5 18:57:11 GMT 2005


Chris Wilson wrote:
> Thanks for spotting that. Shows how much I know about the Win32 API :-)

np.

> Anyway, if we want the timeout to work properly, shouldn't we keep track
> of wall clock time rather than assuming that the system will sleep for
> exactly 1ms, or whatever a timeslice happens to be? Anyone know a Win32
> API function to get the wall clock time with millisecond resolution or
> better?

You're polling the command pipe, yes? If so, don't worry about it - I
plan to rewrite that part of the code to use overlapped IO like a real
Windows app should :-)

I'm just waiting on a coherent set of Win32 source....

-C




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