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Subject: Re: When is the boot process over?
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Date: 19 Feb 91 14:08:16 GMT
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In article <2799@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, ebth@rhi.hi.is (Eggert Bjarni Thorlacius) writes:
> I am writing an INIT that is supposed to be active only during the startup
> process.  Is there any trap(toolbox preferably) that is called for the first
> time *soon* after startup?  I have tried InitWindows, InitMenus etc. but a
> lot of INITs call these, so they won't do.  I also patched InsertMenu but,
> for some wierd reason, that didn't work on a MacIIfx (read: probably only works
> on a Plus).

In the SCSI disk drivers I have written, I use a "dNeedTime" flag
in the driver. The first "accRun" control call to the driver does
not happen until just after the Finder launch. If you do not have
a driver for this, you might try patching PBMount, which should
happen just as Finder boots.

tim.

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