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[REBOL] Wait Port Re:

From: holger:rebol at: 7-Oct-2000 19:40

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:29:47PM -0500, [ptretter--charter--net] wrote:
> Does anyone know what the default time is that the wait commands polls the > port for data. Im not talking about the timeout but the time it check the > port to see if data is coming. How fast is that and can it be changed.
Wait does not poll at all. It blocks until any of the ports you specify have data. This is done by calling an operating system function, not by busy-looping in a poll loop. -- Holger Kruse [holger--rebol--com]