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- In article <1992Dec15.110215.18810@odin.diku.dk> bombadil@diku.dk (Kristian Nielsen) writes:
- > ry53@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Angela Schmidt) writes:
- >
- > >In article <37848@cbmvax.commodore.com>, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) writes:
- >
- > >Here is a part of <dos/dosextens.h>. Please have a look at the commented
- > >line. Doesn't this say, that there has to be a fssm in dol_Startup?
- > >Or are there disks which are no real disks...?
- >
- > Yes. For example the RAM: disk, or XFH:, or some network file systems
- > apparently (?).
-
- The network file-system I have heard about which does this is a custom
- designed job on one of my beta-tester's machines. I haven't seen it
- myself but apparently it is actually a handler which expects a BSTR
- much like your XFH-Handler does.
-
- > Anyway, I'd be VERY interested in any opinions on the best way to solve
- > this problem (ie. how to pass information to a file system handler that
- > cannot provide a valid FSSM). My current approach is to overwrite the
- > 'Startup' field in the device node with NULL (!), which is a terrible
- > hack IMHO.
- >
- > - Kristian.
-
- Actually I like this idea a lot and wish that everyone who needed to
- pass something other than a FSSM would use it. Its trivial to filter
- out a NULL pointer but apparently impossible to 100% reliably filter
- out non-FSSM pointers. At least for my application finding a NULL here
- would not cause any problems.
-
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