Windows System Programming Third Edition

ENVIRONMENT BLOCKS AND STRINGS

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objects, thus allowing a program to poll for process termination. Use

for no time-out to wait until a process terminates.

, a parameter of the second function, specifies (if ) that it is

necessary to wait for all processes, rather than only one, to terminate.

The possible successful return values for this function are as follows.

•

means that the handle is signaled i n the case of

or all objects are simultaneously signaled in the

special case of

with set to .

•

, where ≤ < . Subtract from

the return value to determine which process terminated when waiting for any

of a group of processes to termina te. If ...