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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lock and FileLock
Message-ID: <8704290422.AA27073@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 00:22:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 00:22:07 1987
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>In the include files supplied by Manx, functions such as Lock, DupLock,
>CurrentDir are declared as returning pointers to struct Lock.  However,
>..
>functions to struct FileLock.  Furthermore, when I try to look at the
>field fd_Task of a lock, my system crashes.  Can anyone explain this to

	They return pointers to a FileLock, which is a BPTR. Thus, you have
to shift the address left by two before you can indirect through it to get
at the structure.

				-Matt