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The CreateWaitableTimer function creates a “waitable” timer object.

HANDLE CreateWaitableTimer(

    LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpTimerAttributes,

// pointer to security attributes

    BOOL bManualReset,

// flag for manual reset state

    LPCTSTR lpTimerName

// pointer to timer object name

   );

 

Parameters

lpTimerAttributes
Pointer to a SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES structure that specifies a security descriptor for the new timer object and determines whether child processes can inherit the returned handle. If lpTimerAttributes is NULL, the timer object gets a default security descriptor and the handle cannot be inherited.
bManualReset
Specifies the timer type. If bManualReset is TRUE, the timer is a manual-reset notification timer. Otherwise, the timer is a synchronization timer.
lpTimerName
Points to a null-terminated string specifying the name of the timer object. The name is limited to MAX_PATH characters and can contain any character except the backslash path-separator character (\). Name comparison is case sensitive.

If the string specified in the lpTimerName parameter matches the name of an existing named timer object, the call returns successfully and the GetLastError function returns ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS.

If lpTimerName is NULL, the timer object is created without a name.

If lpTimerName matches the name of an existing event, semaphore, mutex, or file-mapping object, the function fails and GetLastError returns ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE. This occurs because event, semaphore, mutex, file-mapping, and waitable-timer objects share the same name space.

Return Values

If the function succeeds, the return value is a handle to the timer object. If the named timer object exists before the function call, GetLastError returns ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS. Otherwise, GetLastError returns zero.

If the function fails, the return value is NULL. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.

Remarks

The handle returned by CreateWaitableTimer is created with the TIMER_ALL_ACCESS access right. This handle can be used in any function that requires a handle to a timer object.

Any thread of the calling process can specify the timer object handle in a call to one of the wait functions.

Multiple processes can have handles to the same timer object, enabling use of the object for interprocess synchronization.

Use the CloseHandle function to close the handle. The system closes the handle automatically when the process terminates. The timer object is destroyed when its last handle has been closed.

See Also

CancelWaitableTimer, CloseHandle, CreateProcess, DuplicateHandle, FILETIME, OpenWaitableTimer, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, SetWaitableTimer


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