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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tasks, Processes, and file I/O
Message-ID: <615@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 29 Aug 88 09:55:01 GMT
References: <7683@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <7683@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> jjfeiler@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (John J. Feiler) writes:
>Is it true that file I/O cannot be done from within a spawned task?  I'm
>trying to create a task to handle file loading and unloading, but it doesn't
>seem to do anything but crash.  Do I need a process instead of a task?  If
>so, does anyone have any examples of how I should go about spawning a new
>process, cleaning up, etc.
>                           Thanks
>   				John
>

Hello,

yes that is TRUE. You cannot call any DOS function (even DOS related functions
like OpenLibrary a disk based library) from a simple 'task'.

I have posted an article dealing with this problem (someone wanted to
save intermediate results during a calculation).

I will make an example for creating processes and post this next week.

				Michael van Elst

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