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From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
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Subject: Re: resource access from a cdev
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Date: 17 Apr 91 17:00:27 GMT
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In article <159795@tiger.oxy.edu>, schorsch@oxy.edu (Brent William Schorsch) writes:
>Hello, everyone.  I've got one simple question: how can I get
>access to several hundred resources from within a cdev?
>
>Assuming that I have to start storing resources at -4033 (due to
>the screwy "owned resource" stuff of DA's) having hundreds of
>resources of the same type would have ID's which encroach upon the Control
>Panel's reserved ID range--a no no.  If my assumption is wrong, please
>enlighten me. 

Your assumption is certainly wrong under current systems. The Control
Panel assumes certain resources have fixed IDs, but it is not necessary
for all cdev related resources to be owned by the cdev. I don't think
this is likely to change in the future, as I can't think of one single
cdev I have seen that complies strictly to the owned resource condition.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                      neeri@iis.ethz.ch
   "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can 
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