Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!henry!hairston From: hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu (David Hairston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Pyro Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 90 20:26:08 GMT Organization: Gaia II Lines: 12 [lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) writes:] [] I am writing an app that I want to be as MultiFinder friendly as possible. [] Therefore, when I call WaitNextEvent with a sleep value of 0xFFFFFFFF (the [] app doesn't run on Systems with the sleep bug). Unfortunately, I noticed umm, i seem to recall a tech note (sorry i don't remember the number but you could check the sumex archives, info-mac/apple/tn) that stated that the largest sleep never exceed 50L for empirically derived reasons. perhaps that is the source of your problem? -dave- hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu