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From: David Gay
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1989 11:41

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In article <8901070159.AA04046@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@postgres.berkeley.e
du (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
[Stuff about audio.device deleted]
>
>    Also, many people forget to set the ln_Type field of *any* IO
>request to NT_MESSAGE before calling DoIO()/SendIO()/BeginIO().  In the
>case of the audio.device it doesn't matter anyway since the audio.device's
>returning of requests is broken.

Does this mean that there are devices which pass the IORequest to the task
(or whatever) that actually does the work w/o using PutMsg (which will set
the ln_Type field to NT_MESSAGE) ? (or w/o setting ln_Type to NT_MESSAGE in
the BeginIO call)

>
>                -Matt
>

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David Gay                       Another mad amigan
GAY@ELDE.EPFL.CH, or GAY%ELDE.EPFL.CH@CEARN.bitnet

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