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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: WaitPort, GetMsg, ReplyMsg
Message-ID: <5757@well.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 09:21:30 GMT
References: <8804182050.AA15158@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <5417@utah-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Slow-Witted Weapons Experts, Ltd.
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In article <5417@utah-cs.UUCP> thomson@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Richard A Thomson) writes:
>My question still remains unanswered, though.  The documentation for WaitPort
>and GetMsg says that they both "return a pointer to the first message", but
>they return different pointers!
>
	The way I always interpreted WaitPort()'s return value was that it
returned a pointer to the message that woke you up.  This could be useful if
you wanted to Remove() that message explicitly, leaving the remainder of the
list intact.

	I have no proof that this is the case, however.  This is just an
educated guess...

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