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From: phillip@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Phillip Lindsay)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Question on Asyncronous IO message ports
Message-ID: <725@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 13:35:07 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 13:35:07 1986
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> 
> 	If I queue a write to the DOS handler for a specific file, then do
> some other operation normally (such as a Read() or Seek()), will the DOS
> handler do the write operation before the Read() or Seek() (e.g. in the
> order PutMsg'd to the port), or can things get mixed around?
> 
> 				Thanks,
> 
> 				-Matt

The requests are handled in a "fifo" fashion. So yes, if you queue a write
 then a read ... the write will be done first.
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