Name 

Description 

AddTimer 

Adds a new periodic timer. From now, until the timer is removed with RemoveTimer, it will call the timer procedure at the specified frequency of milliseconds. The delay until the first time the timer fires can be specified independant of frequency. If it is not specified, the first time the timer will get invoked is at +1 frequency from now. 

AddTimerEx 

Adds a new periodic timer. From now, until the timer is removed with RemoveTimer, it will call the timer procedure at the specified frequency of milliseconds. The delay until the first time the timer fires can be specified independant of frequency. If it is not specified, the first time the timer will get invoked is at +1 frequency from now. 

ChangeTimer 

Changes the frequency of a timer. Reschedule timer only changes the next time it fires, this can adjust the frequency. The simple ChangeTimer macro is sufficient. 

EnterCriticalSec 

Enter a critical section. Only a single thread may be in a critical section, if a second thread attempts to enter the section while another thread is in it will block until the original thread leaves the section. The same thread may enter a critical section multiple times. For each time a critical section is entered, the thread must also leave the critical section (See LeaveCriticalSection). 

EnterCriticalSecNoWait 

This is macro sack::timers::EnterCriticalSecNoWait. 

InitializeCriticalSection 

A custom implementation of windows CRITICAL_SECTION api. Provides same capability for Linux type systems. Can be checked as a study in how to implement safe locks.
 

IsThisThread 

This tests to see if a pointer to a thread references the current thread. 

LeaveCriticalSec 

Leaves a critical section. See EnterCriticalSecEx. 

SLEEP_FOREVER 

Symbol defined to pass to Wakeable_Sleep to sleep until someone calls WakeThread. 

ThreadTo 

Create a separate thread that starts in the routine specified. The PTRSZVAL value (something that might be a pointer), is passed in the PTHREAD structure. (See GetThreadParam) 

ThreadToSimple 

Create a separate thread that starts in the routine specified. The PTRSZVAL value (something that might be a pointer), is passed in the PTHREAD structure. (See GetThreadParam) 

TIMER_PROC 

Defines import export and call method for timers. Looks like timers are native calltype by default instead of CPROC. 

WakeThread 

Wake a thread. 

WakeThreadID 

Wake a thread by ID, if the pThread is not available. Can be used cross-process for instance. Although someone could add a method to provide a PTHREAD wrapper around THREAD_ID for threads in remote processes, this may not be a best practice.