[Info-vax] Volatile, was: Re: yet another sys$qiow question

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In article <55e0e6cd$0$43088$c3e8da3$5e5e430d at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>On 15-08-28 18:41, "VAXman- "@SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> $SYNCH will put the process into LEF whether you use a valid event flag or
>> EFN$C_ENF
>
>
>LEF is evil :-)
>
>It means your program can't do anything while waiting for an IO which
>may never complete.

OK.  So it's better to sit there and spin in CUR/COM on the IOSB until it's
non-zero?

I'm glad you're not writing code on MY systems.

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