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From: valentin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: resource tracking
Keywords: Discipline, discipline
Message-ID: <9717@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Feb 90 02:53:42 GMT
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Reply-To: valentin@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <5178@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <9704@cbmvax.commodore.com> valentin@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
>
>> Whoa! Come on, you know better than that! I can name a huge number of system
>> calls which do not end up send a message somewhere else. In fact, I have
>> a lot of difficulty identifying the calls which actually do send a message.
>> They're pretty rare.
>
>If I interpret you correctly, you've misinterpreted me. In UNIX, message
>passing is the exception. In the Amiga, "system calls" are all messages.
>So you're just saying the same thing I said: in UNIX, IPC is the exception.

No, I was referring to AmigaDOS. There are many system calls in AmigaDOS which
do not result in sending messages. It is easy to identify those that do in the
Exec, but I have trouble identifying the Intuition or graphics calls that do.
But then, I'm no intuition Guru.

Valentin
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