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Article #2288Re: Aborting TimerReq (answer and a question)
From: Robert R. Burns
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 18:40
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 18:40
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In article ... dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) writes:
)Page B-68 of the printed 1.3 AutoDocs (the entry for
)timer.device/TR_ADDREQUEST) says:
)
)"The message may be forced to finish early with an AbortIO()/WaitIO() pair."
I abort TR_ADDREQUEST requests as follows (here follows C version of asm
code used to abort the time request that causes keys to repeat in the
input device task):
AbortIO(TimerReq);
WaitIO(TimerReq);
Notes:
1. the result of AbortIO is always meaningless. For example, if
the timer has already handled the TR_ADDREQUEST, it would
report that the AbortIO failed -- but you don't care because
you're doing a WaitIO next anyway.
2. the result of WaitIO is meaningless here. What do you care whether
the timer request was satisfied or aborted: your code flow is
only interested in retrieving the TimerReq for reuse, which it
has done successfully at this point.
[he then describes some problems and his solution]
)The WaitIO() always returns error IOERR_ABORTED (or whatever) and fails
)to clear some bit or another.
I don't know what bit you're talking about.
--
Bob Burns, amiga!kodiak _
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!oliveb!amiga!kodiak From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Aborting TimerReq (answer and a question) Keywords: timer.device AbortIO() WaitIO() Wait() Message-ID: <4883@amiga.UUCP> Date: 21 Nov 89 18:40:01 GMT References: <4499@blake.acs.washington.edu> Reply-To: kodiak@batgirl.UUCP (Robert R. Burns) Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA Lines: 34