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Subject: Re: Greetings... a patch I would like your comments on...
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* Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> This is a good and useful addition! I think Windows has implemented a
> generalization of this (called "wait objects" or something like that),
> which effectively allows a select()- (or in this case kqueue())-like
> syscall to wait on both file descriptors and condvars (as well as
> probably other MS-style objects). It's useful for multiplexing events
> for dissimilar sources.

NtWaitForSingleObject(), NtWaitForMultipleObjects(), etc. :-)

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