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WaitForMultipleObjects - 2 timeouts?

Hi Experts,

I have the need for 2 separate timeouts as events coming back from WaitForMultipleObjects. The normal timeout with WAIT_TIMEOUT is done.. How can I add a 2nd timeout event? Perhaps a handle with some timer function that sets the event after a certain amount of time?

Thanks!
Mike

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I don't think so- if timeout 2 is smaller, then it suffers... If I have one timeout of 10 seconds and the other is 30, I want the event to happen every 10 seconds and every 30 seconds...

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Do the timeouts depend on which event fired? If so, you could use the event indicator that is returned to select the next timeout.

Alternatively, you could 'WaitForSingleObject()' in two separate threads...

thready

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Yeap... I guess that's the best I can do with this. Not giving up yet though... :-)

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Thanks! I'll be doing a hybrid of the "best solution". There's one of the timeouts that is so unimportant and will be guaranteed to run less often than the other, so I'll just check if it's "time for that event too"... kinda thing... :-)