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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IPC - Standard Message Blocks
Message-ID: <1888@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 12:55:33 GMT
References: <5699@well.UUCP> <9131@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
> Oh oh! Looks like the blind men have their fingers on the elephant again...

Kinky.

> And another minor, but relevant, point.  At some point the server is
> (usually!) going to reply the message, and the client is going to want to
> know what happened to the stuff it sent over.  If some of it was simply
> snipped out of a linked list, it is just gone, with no record.  On the
> other hand in our protocol an Item's pointer is set to NULL if its data is
> removed (or taken over by the server).  (If it is simply altered, things
> are different of course; we may want flags in the status word to indicate
> such happenings.)

Actually, I think we want a flag for takeovers, too. I can see cases where the
PTR field is going to be NULL. Didn't you get my last message (knew I shoulda
saved it).

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On another track, have you had a look at the midi library? I think it's a good
standard for its purpose, and can take some of the load.
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