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Subject: Re: Task spawning difficulties
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:11:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:11:13 1987
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tekig4!brianr writes:

>static void Countemup()
>{
> int i;
> geta4();
> total = 300;
> if (AllocSignal (KILLSIG) != KILLSIG) goto dumpout;
> total = 0;
> Wait (KILLFLAG);
> for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) total += i;
> 
>dumpout:
> RemTask (0L);
>}

	IF I remember correctly, RemTask() REQUIRES a valid pointer to a
Task structure.  Thus the call should be RemTask(FindTask(0L)) and FindTask()
should be declared as struct Task *FindTask().

	Why are you running the task at such a high priority?  The manuals
suggest not running at 20 or higher because certain system tasks (trackdisk)
wouldn't be able to respond quickly enough to interrupts.

Good luck,

James Synge

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