Re: Amigix (Re: alarm() function)

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From: Deven Corzine
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1989 21:30

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In article <6381@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
 >In article <DEVEN.89Mar22211102@daniel.rpi.edu> shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Thomas Corzine) writes:
 >> >        CheckIO only tells you whether the request hs finished.
 >>
 >>True.  I suppose you could look at the IOrequest which probably
 >>contains the remaining time, but that's not legal, and not nice at
 >>all.  So, the question is, is there a legal way to find the time
 >>remaining on a timer request?  AbortIO/WaitIO and THEN check the time
 >>fields?  Something else?  (Preferably something that won't break in
 >>the future...)

 >        Remember the time you started the request, and the length, seperately
 >from the IO request itself.  To determine how much time is left, ask timer
 >what time it is, and use determine the amount of time remaining.  I think
 >timer has an entry for subtracting time values for you.

Indeed.  (I probably would've thought of it sooner or later.  :-)
Yeah, the timer has time arithmetic functions available...  That'll
work fine.  Will do.

Deven
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From: deven@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven Corzine)
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Subject: Re: Amigix (Re: alarm() function)
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Date: 23 Mar 89 21:30:38 GMT
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