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Article #6368Re: Children and message ports
From: Peter A. Castro
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 22:20
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 1990 22:20
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in article <9011021641.AA18389@luke.eecs.wsu.edu>, hakimian@LUKE.EECS.WSU.EDU says:
+
+ I have created a child process using CreateProc. In the child I call
+ FindTask to find my task (process) pointer. I then wait on my process
+ message port
+
+ proc = (struct Process *)FindTask(0);
+ port = proc->pr_MsgPort;
+ WaitPort(proc);
+
+ In the parent I send a message to the child.
+
+ procid = CreateProc(name,pri,seg,stack);
+ PutMsg(procid,msg);
+
+ The result, Task held ...
+
+ The eventual guru is 8700004 (not sure on the # of 0). I think this means
+ bad packet to the dos library. Does it? How did I do that?
Yes, you did. The CreateProc() function returns a Process structure
pointer. You must extract the MsgPort out of this structure and use
it in your call : PutMsg(procid->pr_MsgPort,msg).
Look in your friendly include directory for these:
libraries/dosextens.h, exec/tasks.h
+
+ This code is in a device driver if that makes any difference.
+
+ I have commented out the PutMsg to see if that was the problem. It is.
+ what is wrong with my PutMsg? Did I miss something?
+
+ By the way the child task is running.
BTW: If you linked your child task with standard startup code, it is
probably waiting for a cli/workbench startup message in the startup code.
If you have it, look in the Rom Kernel Manuals. If I remember correctly,
there are some *corrected* examples which might help you.
+
+ Please reply by email, post, homing pigeon, any way you can! Thanks
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!troi!peter From: peter@dbaccess.com (Peter A. Castro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Children and message ports Message-ID: <886@troi.dbaccess.com> Date: 5 Nov 90 22:20:45 GMT References: <9011021641.AA18389@luke.eecs.wsu.edu> Organization: DB Access Inc., Santa Clara, CA Lines: 45