From - Mon Sep 29 08:25:25 1997
Path: news.mitre.org!blanket.mitre.org!agate!newsgate.duke.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.14.113.2!news.alt.net!usenet
From: tony@ercolano.com (Anthony V. Ercolano)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode
Subject: Re: Polling a device
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 23:36:45 GMT
Organization: Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - http://www.altopia.com
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <344f4699.2024489437@news.alt.net>
References: <01bcc9eb$8fb5dfd0$14903ea2@tallt>
Reply-To: tony@ercolano.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451

The IO system supports calling a function every second for a driver.
Look up the documentation on IoInitializeTimer.


"Scott Tracy" <scottt@btc.adaptec.com> wrote:

>I need a routine to poll a device about every second to see if a lengthy
>routine has been finished.   I don't want to bog the system down too much. 
>The only literature I've read speaks about handling this in a private
>driver thread.  Does anyone out there have some sample code to accomplish
>this??