Inside Macintosh: Networking With Open Transport / Part 2 - Open Transport Reference

Chapter 27 - Utilities Reference / Functions

Idling and Delaying Processing /

OTIdle

Provides idle time to Open Transport.

C INTERFACE

void OTIdle(void)

C++ INTERFACE

None. C++ applications use the C interface to this function.

DISCUSSION

You can call the OTIdle function while you are waiting for asynchronous provider operations to complete. It is not necessary for the correct operation of Open Transport to call this function, it is provided for compatibility with existing programs that use an idling function.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

You cannot call the OTIdle function at primary interrupt time or at deferred task time. This function does not call the SystemTask, WaitNextEvent, or GetNextEvent functions.

IMPORTANT

You should never call the OTIdle function in production code on a Macintosh computer.