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- Subject: Re: Messages vs. Semaphores for external clocking
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- References: <4ju349$r1e@sparky.navsea.navy.mil> <4jvrqs$hk0@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>
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- From: heinz@hwg.muc.de (Heinz Wrobel)
- Message-ID: <heinz.17rm@hwg.muc.de>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 96 19:37:34 GMT
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- barnhoorn@nlev00 wrote:
- >Use global data, which your subtask fills with the timer-values,
- >and the parent process reads. Disable() and Enable() multitasking
- >when performing such a critical action (reading or writing from the
- >global data). No message port or semaphore needed.
-
- Obviously this is the dumb c0d3r non multitasking solution, i.e.
- plain stupid.
-
- >Jaco Barnhoorn barnie@xs4all.nl
- >Software Test Engineer barnhoorn%nlev00@btmv56.se.bel.alcatel.be
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Alcatel Telecom Systems
-
- Maybe I should warn people about Alcatel stuff now. :-/
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