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From: madshi
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:25

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> What I wrote was simply a sentence from the online help.

I know. But never trust the documentation...   :-)

> However, I can't see any sense in getting the context of the current
> thread.

Right, that really doesn't make much sense.

But in some special situations it might make sense to get the context of 
another running thread without first suspending it. In the moment where 
you look at the resulting Context structure it will probably be already 
outdated, but apart from that it works - and sometimes it does make 
sense this way...

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