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From: hakimian@LUKE.EECS.WSU.EDU
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Subject: Children and message ports
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Date: 2 Nov 90 16:41:35 GMT
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I have created a child process using CreateProc. In the child I call
FindTask to find my task (process) pointer. I then wait on my process
message port

proc = (struct Process *)FindTask(0);
port = proc->pr_MsgPort;
WaitPort(proc);

In the parent I send a message to the child.

procid = CreateProc(name,pri,seg,stack);
PutMsg(procid,msg);

The result, Task held ...

The eventual guru is 8700004 (not sure on the # of 0). I think this means
bad packet to the dos library. Does it? How did I do that?

This code is in a device driver if that makes any difference.

I have commented out the PutMsg to see if that was the problem. It is.
what is wrong with my PutMsg? Did I miss something?

By the way the child task is running.

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