Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!jsm
From: jsm@Apple.COM (Jeff Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Safety of using async _Control from ioCompletion?
Message-ID: <7049@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 90 17:44:13 GMT
References: <1990Mar5.031521.4774@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1990Mar5.031521.4774@caen.engin.umich.edu> mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) writes:
>
>  I know the old litany of not moving memory from a completion routine.  What
>I'm wondering is if it's safe to make an asynchronous _Control call from a
>completion routine.  I was thinking about the AppleTalk drivers specifically;

Yes, it is safe.  In fact, many device drivers (including AppleTalk I believe)
do this.

Jeff Miller