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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Proposal for new DOS calls
Message-ID: <2974@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 9 Nov 88 12:45:14 GMT
References: <8811082059.AA26891@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <8811082059.AA26891@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> 	Another reason:  Sure, you can make your own packets pending, but
> there is NO WAY TO ABORT THEM!  You *HAVE* to wait for something to happen!!!
> YOU CANNOT CLOSE A FILE HANDLE WHILE OTHER PACKETS ARE PENDING ON IT!!!

How big a problem is this, really? Just make Close mark the file handle for
deletion and string it on a list that you'll clean up before you exit.

> 	OK Pete, that last one is a very big item ... admit your defeat in
> this particular bout!

I wasn't aware we were fighting. I was just trying to suggest a way you could
solve your problems without waiting for CATS and AmigaOS 1.4. I guess you're
going to have to wait for drivers that can handle simultaneous reads and
writes, but I got the impression you're writing one of those yourself. If
you check first to see if it can handle it before going ahead and trying to
do the I/O then there's a workaround.

You didn't make your goals clear... you're trying to implement sockets. A
laudable goal, and it might well need all the baggage you're describing. It
wasn't obvious to those of us who haven't used sockets... I'm used to doing
IPC on real-time operating systems and the Amiga model is very close to the
ones I'm used to.
-- 
		    Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
		     Have you hugged  U  your wolf today?

	      Disclaimer: My typos are my own damn business.