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From: bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Message Ports
Message-ID: <BQAcp*wk@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 25 May 91 15:09:09 GMT
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Ive been trying to do message ports, but I havent had lots of success, my ports
wont get properly recognized by name.  Below small test program I wrote :

main( argc, argv )
  int argc;
  char *argv[];
{
  struct MsgPort *mp;

  mp = FindPort( argv[1] );
  if ( mp == NULL )                            /* No port with that name */
  {
    mp = CreatePort( argv[1], 0 );                    /* so create one ! */
    printf("Created \"%s\" at 0x%0x\n", argv[1], mp );
  }
  else                                           /* found the given port */
  {
    printf("Found \"%s\" at 0x%0x\n", argv[1], mp );
    DeletePort( mp );                                    /* so remove it */
  }
}

And here is some test runs.... ( with added comments ;-)

2.RAMB0:> port crud        
Created "crud" at 0x208d28        Yay, it created ok !!
2.RAMB0:> port anticrud     
Found "anticrud" at 0x208d28      Whats this, I thought I called you crud !
2.RAMB0:> port crud        
Created "crud" at 0x208d28        Yep, well it created ok
2.RAMB0:> port zzzz        
Found "zzzz" at 0x208d28          But a different name is found at the address

So....Can anyone tell me what is going on ??

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