Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!mit-eddie!rutgers!bpa!cbmvax!mks
From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Help - Asynchronous I/O to/from files
Message-ID: <9830@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 26 Feb 90 20:46:23 GMT
References: <99009@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (Michael Sinz - CATS)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
Lines: 25

In article <99009@linus.UUCP> duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson) writes:
>
>Can anyone tell me how to do asynchronous I/O to/from AmigaDOS files?
>
>That is,I want to issue a Read() or Write() request and not block, but
>be notified with a signal later when the I/O completes.  I know that
>it's possible to send I/O request packets asynchonoushly to any device
>driver, but I don't want to deal with device drivers, I want to deal with
>the file system.  Isn't there a way to do this?  I can't find it in my RKMs.
>Any help would be appreciated?

Yes, you send packets to AmigaDos directly.  These are documented in the
AmigaDos manual (BANTAM Books, ISBN 0-553-34294-0)  The packets are
actually sent to the FileSystem and this all works wonderfully.

>Thanks
>Duncan Thomson

/----------------------------------------------------------------------\
|      /// Michael Sinz -- CATS/Amiga Software Engineer                |
|     ///  PHONE 215-431-9422  UUCP ( uunet | rutgers ) !cbmvax!mks    |
|    ///                                                               |
|\\\///          When people are free to do as they please,            |
| \XX/                they usually imitate each other.                 |
\----------------------------------------------------------------------/