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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Starting up a process without a LoadSeg?
Keywords: detaching a program so it won't get unloaded
Message-ID: <11608@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 08:59:01 GMT
References: <14338@louie.udel.EDU> <111@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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Quote: "Opus, she's an alien transvestite robot."  -- Portnoy

In article <111@tardis.Tymnet.COM> jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) writes:
>It's included in the _main.c routine that Leo hacked up to get robotroff to
>work.  It can be found on Fred Fish disk number 59.
>
>Given that Leo wanted robotroff's function to be a surprise, I can understand
>why there are no comments in this code.  But now that this section of a cute
>hack is becoming useful, I would appreciate it if Leo would repost the code,
>WITH COMMENTS, so that we can learn from this genius's thought processes.

	Well, it turns out that that's not my goodie, either.  It's Jim
Goodnow II's (author of the Manx C compiler).  I'm not entirely certain I
can go around distributing even a modified version of it.  (I'll ask the
next time I see him.)

	I tested 'Robotroff' on a Gamma version of 1.3 once, and it crashed
the system all the way back to Kickstart.  I don't know why it did this, but
that _main.c module has always been a wee bit suspect.

	If ever I get sufficient free time (ha!), I'll rewrite most of my
hacks to be more compatible with contemporary OS technology.

	I understand that, if you have Manx 3.6 or Lattice 5.0?, detatching
startup modules are provided.

>I've read the code, and the more I think I understand it the more I'm sure
>that I'm missing something important.  Honest.
>
	It's not *that* terrible, is it?  The only really icky part is where
he turns the SegList into a MemList and sticks it in the task structure.

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