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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Flushing handlers out of memory.
Message-ID: <1110@sas.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 15:12:49 GMT
References: <59256@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <59256@linus.UUCP> rachamp@mbunix.mitre.org (Champeaux) writes:
>I imagine that this program can be taken a step further to make it an unmount
>command by also deleting the DevInfo node from the device list.

Under AmigaDOS 1.3:

ASSIGN PLT: REMOVE

does exactly that.  It doesn't unload the handler code, though, so it's only
useful during program development.  I suggest putting a back door msgport in
your handler that lets you force it to give up its resources (as much as possible)
and die.

--Doug