Path: utzoo!utgpu!utfyzx!oscvax!jan
From: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: a question (was Re: IPC: Messages (again))
Message-ID: <601@oscvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Mar-88 17:45:48 EST
References: <8803151957.AA11010@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jan@oscvax.UUCP (Jan Sven Trabandt)
Organization: Ontario Science Centre, Toronto
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Summary: 

This isn't *specifically* addressed to Matt, but...

In article <8803151957.AA11010@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>	You are out of your mind.  OF COURSE THE MESSAGES HAVE TO BE REPLIED!
>I want to statically allocate my messages.  I want to know when the pointers
>I passed are no longer being used.  If you insist that replying messages
>would be wasteful, I would like to point out that one can set the replyport
							^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>to "call a function" instead of "signal a task", so the guy sending the message
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>has full control over whether he wants to handle replies or wants to just
>FreeMem() the message.

This may be a stupid question, but how exactly do you do this???

(Sorry to waste bandwidth with this, but I had problems e-mailing to
Matt. Of course anyone can reply to me if they know the answer).

Thanks,
Jan Sven.
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Jan  (Jan, from Amsterdam) no-hyphen Sven  Trabandt
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