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>Chapter 6. Synchronous</H1
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>All functions in libusb v0.1 are synchronous, meaning the functions block and wait for the operation to finish or timeout before returning execution to the calling application. Asynchronous operation will be supported in v1.0, but not v0.1.</P
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