Miscellaneous Events
Open Transport AppleTalk maintains a service called the miscellaneous events service that you can use to ensure that your application is not adversely affected when an AppleTalk transition occurs. An example of an AppleTalk transition is an AppleTalk router coming online or a zone name changing. When one of these events occurs, Open Transport sends a message to the notifier functions of all endpoints that have registered for reception of miscellaneous events.Your application can register itself to receive miscellaneous events by using the
OTIoctlfunction, as described in the chapter "Providers" in this book.