[fpc-pascal]dos approx delay fn that releases cpu

[Gabor DEAK JAHN]

At 5/9/01 05:32 PM, you wrote:

Jonas,

 > The problem is that Windows keeps a lock on a file for a few seconds 
after a
 > (Win32) program has released it, that's all. It's an OS bug/feature,

Could you provide an example program? I tried running several programs on NT
4 now, observing all the handles they keep open (using HandleEx from
SysInternals) and their release was instantaneous as I closed the programs
themselves.

I have written a program some time ago where two EXEs were communicating
through DDE and using a common file for passing data in one direction and
results or error messages in the other. As soon as Program 1 wrote the data
to be processed, closed the file and notified Program 2 to start processing,
the second opened the file and started to work immediately. During the two
seconds you mentioned, hundreds if not thousands of such file close-reopen
operations were made, without any need to wait.


Bye,
    Gábor

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