Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dino!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!netserv2!deven From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Async AmigaDOS I/O using locks and packets? Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 90 10:02:34 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 17 In reading through the AmigaDOS Manual, (V1.1, Bantam) in the section on Lock in the AmigaDOS Technical Manual section, it describes usefulness of locks for checking if a file exists, Lock() having lower overhead than Open(), and says that locks are used extensively by AmigaDOS. Fine. It also says that locks can also be used for asynchronous I/O, but does not describe HOW. Can you Lock() a file and use packets to the filesystem handler to do asynchronous I/O to AmigaDOS files without even having to call Open()? If so, how do you do this? Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2151 12th St. Apt. 4, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 274-0327 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.