Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Unix V7 functionality under (or along with) AmigaDOS? (*LONG*) Message-ID: <6473@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 31 Mar 89 19:21:18 GMT References: <6406@cbmvax.UUCP> <6464@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 23 In article shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >Say you've got 2 processes, each sending messages to the other. Is >there or is there not a need to separate reply ports from message >ports [as receiving points, not reply-receiving points] or can you >have a single message port for each process, using it as the >destination port for the messages the other process sends, and as the >reply port for any messages the process spends. That book implied >you'd need one port for the other process to send messages to, and >another to receive the reply messages for messages you send to the >other process... What's the actuality? You can use the port for recieving either. ReplyMsg is essentially {msg->mn_Node.ln_Type = NT_REPLYMSG; PutMsg(msg->mn_ReplyPort,msg);}. Not exactly that, but you get the idea. On another note: deven, you've shown up in the top 25 posters on all of usenet by messages. Try to include less "ok, I'll do that" and included text in your messages, please. Thanks -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup