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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:25

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Neil P. wrote:

>I do have a question, why would you need WaitForSingleObject, if you can
>specify a timeout for the read and write using the Read or Write
>TotalTimeoutConstant?

Different way of doing the same thing.
Difference is if you have other things to do while waiting for file
i/o, or whether blocking is acceptable.

In your case, you really wanted to hang around and wait for the data,
so blocking was fine.  (Data was more important than time, to a point)

Other people might have better things to do than wait around for
something to eventually come in, and so use overlapped with long read
timeouts, but zero or very small WaitFor timeouts. (Time more
important than data).
Also, with very long and uncertain reads, if the application decides
to close, the thread isn't blocked and can terminate readily.

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