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Article #11796Re: Testing for disk (Lock?)
From: Dave Thomas QA
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 14:38
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1989 14:38
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In article <0422.AA0422@wfhami> bill@wfhami.UUCP (Bill Hogsett) writes:
>
> I am modifying the C code for the old Tecmar T-Disk (yep its still
> ticking!). I now have it running with FFS, but can't get the old code to
> properly tell if it is being run after the disk has already been mounted.
>
> I have tried the following:
>
> /* This calls up a requestor!!*/
> lock=Lock("dh0:c", SHARED_LOCK);
> if (lock != 0)
> {
> UnLock(lock);
> return HDERR_IsMounted;
> }
> This works fine if the disk has already been mounted. It returns what
> you would expect. The problem is that it prompts for DH0: if it is called
> before the disk is mounted (the normal case).
>
> Is there a way to check for the existence of a device or directory and
> not have a requestor if the check fails?
Yep. In the process structure there is a field called pr_ConsoleTask. If it
is set to -1 (I think) this will inhibit DOS requesters appearing for that
process.
struct Process *p;
p = (struct Process *) FindTask (0);
p->pr_ConsoleTask = (APTR) -1;
This should do the trick. You should restore the original value when your
program exits or that process will not get requesters ever again...
Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!amiga!cbmvax!thomas From: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Testing for disk (Lock?) Keywords: Lock, Help, T-Disk Message-ID: <6248@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 89 14:38:05 GMT References: <0422.AA0422@wfhami> Reply-To: thomas@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Thomas QA) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 48