Event_t Class Reference

Event class that avoids trips into the kernel when the event has been set previously.

#include <UTEvent.h>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	Event_t (bool initially_set=false, bool allow_timeouts_other_than_zero_or_infinite=false)
	~Event_t ()
bool	Wait (int32 timeout_ms=-1)
void	Set (int release_count=1)

---

Detailed Description

Definition at line 42 of file UTEvent.h.

---

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Event_t::Event_t	(	bool	initially_set = false,
		bool	allow_timeouts_other_than_zero_or_infinite = false
	)

Event constructor. If a nonzero timeout is specified and it does time out, the atomic addition mechanism used to avoid trips into the kernel would have an unfixable race condition. Therefore, use timeouts other than zero or infinite (-1) only when necessary, and if any other timeout is used, the event must have been constructed to allow that. Using that type of event inevitably degrades its performance.

Event_t::~Event_t

(

)

Event destructor.

---

Member Function Documentation

bool Event_t::Wait

(

int32

timeout_ms = -1

)

Waits for the event to be set, or until the specified timeout has elapsed. Returns true if the event has been set and acquired, false if the timeout elapsed. If timeout_ms is specified to be -1, the function will wait indefinitely.

void Event_t::Set

(

int

release_count = 1

)

Sets the event, possibly releasing more than one waiting thread depending on release_count.

---

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• D:/develop/svn/utlib/utlib/trunk/UT/src_UT/UTEvent.h