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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: IPC -- Oopsie.
Message-ID: <1771@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 88 11:10:35 GMT
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Keywords: IPC mistake late night with Peter da Silva

Oops. Sorry, Pete.

In my last IPC message I said that only pointers should go in the pointer
field of the IPCItem structure. That was totally bogus... you should be
able to put RastPorts, Locks, anything in there.

But you still need to be able to let IPCGateways know about them if they
can do anything with them.

How about this. If the size feild is zero, then that means "Mind your own
business, Spock, I'm sick of your half-breed interference". So IPCGateway
can copy stuff through with non-zero size feilds, and leave bad ones behind.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
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