SetCommTimeouts (Compact 2013)

3/28/2014

This function sets the timeout parameters for all read and write operations on a specified communications device.

Syntax

BOOL SetCommTimeouts(
  HANDLE hFile,
  LPCOMMTIMEOUTS lpCommTimeouts
);

Parameters

• hFile
  [in] Handle to the communications device returned by the CreateFile function.

• lpCommTimeouts
  [in] Long pointer to a COMMTIMEOUTS structure that contains the new time-out values.

Return Value

Nonzero indicates success. Zero indicates failure. To obtain extended error information, call the GetLastError function.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

Serial Communications Functions
COMMTIMEOUTS
GetCommTimeouts

Other Resources

CreateFile
ReadFile