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Re: Why the session of RTimer can't be shared among threads.

tote — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:32:26 +0200

Have you already had a look at RTimer's (and eventually RHandleBase's) Duplicate() method? Having read the documentation (but without making any experiments) I think a timer object can be used in multiple threads. And eventually any objects derived from RHandleBase.

Tote

Re: Why the session of RTimer can't be shared among threads.

alh — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:53:45 +0200

Hmm.. Why would you want to?
I don't really see the point of shareing timers, since they don't contain any information that would be useful for any other thread.

Why the session of RTimer can't be shared among threads.

rensijie — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:24:11 +0200

Hi experts,

When I use RTimer class, I noticed that there's only one initilize functions called CreateLocal()--
(Creates a thread-relative timer). Meaning that the session of RTimer can't be shared among threads.

I'm wondering why Symbian still do this? As we know, the session can be share among threads from
Symbian 7.0 and even can be shared among processes from Symbian 8.0.