Re: Idle dos box/giveup time slice, how?

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From: Turgut Kalfaoglu
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:21

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I think OS/2 'counts' the number of keyboard scans per second. If it
exceeds a certain number, the program is suspected to be polling.
I think there are some things that zero the counter, like I/O..

About giving up time to other threads - try a DosSleep(0);

Regards, -turgut

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