The Old New Thing

Pumping messages while waiting for a period of time

January 26, 2006 Jan 26, 2006 01/26/06

Raymond Chen

We can use the function (or its superset ) to carry out a non-polling "sleep while processing messages". This function pumps messages for up to milliseconds. The kernel of the idea is merely to use the function as a surrogate for , pumping messages until the cumulative timeout has been reached. There are a lot of small details to pay ...