Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!mcsun!unido!mpirbn!p554mve From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: SetFunction and expunging libraries Message-ID: <555@mpirbn.UUCP> Date: 13 Feb 90 10:21:00 GMT References: <551@mpirbn.UUCP> Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst) Distribution: comp Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn Lines: 23 In article deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: >Elst> ... [Carolyn Scheppners CMD program] >Elst> even checks if another patch program has done a second >Elst> SetFunction on these vectors because this program might call >Elst> CMD's patches in a daisy chain. >I'm not sure I see what you mean about this "secondary patch" bit. It >checks for a patch when it installs its own? at some other time? >both? It checks when terminating, since another program could have SetFunctioned after CMD (and might call the old vectors, i.e. those of CMD) you'd get into troubles if the code of CMD is unloaded. > ... Now, this may sound useless, but I do >have a use in mind; I want a library that will be open, but which can >find out if the system is in need of memory, so it can free buffers, >caches, and the like. Sounds familiar, there is a lomem.library from ASDG, I think it has been on some fishdisk. This DOES exactly what you want. Michael van Elst uunet!unido!mpirbn!p554mve