Bug in Win32file WaitCommEvent ???

[Grant Edwards]

In article <argma4$tqv$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2002 15:27:18 GMT, grante at visi.com (Grant Edwards) wrote:
> [...]
>>
>>I've seen plenty of apps that assume it doesn't wait all the
>>time.  If I had a C compiler and knew how to write a simple
>>console app for Win32, it would be easy enough to figure out
>>how it really does work.  The Win32 guys I work with directly
>>all write device drivers and none of them know how the
>>user-land API works.
>>
> I found this, which seems to indicate someone else worried about it,
> and did a patch, but apparently wasn't 100% sure it was needed ;-/
> 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2001-q4/msg00297.html

Yup.  That patch to cygwin addresses the problem as my original
post described it.  If I was wrong, at least I'm not the only
one. :)

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