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Event Objects
An event object is a synchronization object whose state can be explicitly set to signaled by
use of the SetEvent or PulseEvent function. Following are the two types of event object.
Object
| Description
| Manual-reset event
| An event object whose state remains signaled until it is explicitly reset to
nonsignaled by the ResetEvent function. While it is signaled, any number of waiting threads, or threads
that subsequently specify the same event object in one of the wait functions, can be released.
| Auto-reset event
| An event object whose state remains signaled until a single waiting thread is
released, at which time the system automatically sets the state to nonsignaled.
If no threads are waiting, the event object's state remains signaled.
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The event object is useful in sending a signal to a thread indicating that a
particular event has occurred. For example, in overlapped input and output, the
system sets a specified event object to the signaled state when the overlapped
operation has been completed. A single thread can specify different event
objects in several simultaneous overlapped operations, then use one of the
multiple-object wait functions to wait for the state of any one of the event objects to be signaled.
A thread uses the CreateEvent function to create an event object. The creating thread specifies the initial
state of the object and whether it is a manual-reset or auto-reset event
object. The creating thread can also specify a name for the event object. Threads in
other processes can open a handle of an existing event object by specifying
its name in a call to the OpenEvent function. For additional information about names for mutex, event, semaphore,
and timer objects, see Interprocess Synchronization.
A thread can use the PulseEvent function to set the state of an event object to signaled and then reset it to
nonsignaled after releasing the appropriate number of waiting threads. For a
manual-reset event object, all waiting threads are released. For an auto-reset
event object, the function releases only a single waiting thread, even if
multiple threads are waiting. If no threads are waiting, PulseEvent simply sets the state of the event object to nonsignaled and returns.
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