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Re: SetFunction and expunging libraries

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From: Michael van Elst
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1990 10:21
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In article <DEVEN.90Feb11000753@netserv2.rpi.edu> deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
>Elst> ... [Carolyn Scheppners CMD program]
>Elst> even checks if another patch program has done a second
>Elst> SetFunction on these vectors because this program might call
>Elst> CMD's patches in a daisy chain.
>I'm not sure I see what you mean about this "secondary patch" bit.  It
>checks for a patch when it installs its own?  at some other time?
>both?

It checks when terminating, since another program could have SetFunctioned
after CMD (and might call the old vectors, i.e. those of CMD) you'd
get into troubles if the code of CMD is unloaded.

> ...  Now, this may sound useless, but I do
>have a use in mind; I want a library that will be open, but which can
>find out if the system is in need of memory, so it can free buffers,
>caches, and the like.

Sounds familiar, there is a lomem.library from ASDG, I think it has been
on some fishdisk. This DOES exactly what you want.

Michael van Elst
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From: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SetFunction and expunging libraries
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Date: 13 Feb 90 10:21:00 GMT
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