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- From: absurd@apple.apple.com (Tim Dierks, software saboteur)
- Subject: Re: Driving mac program from another
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <absurd-181292135707@seuss.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:23:37 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.041429.22979@philmtl.philips.ca> <1992Dec18.175034.23523@kth.se>
- Organization: MacDTS Marauders
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
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- In article <1992Dec18.175034.23523@kth.se>, d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon
- Wtte) wrote:
- > In <1992Dec18.041429.22979@philmtl.philips.ca> ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn) writes:
- > However, affecting someone elses jGNEFilter means patching in on
- > INIT time; so you'll have to have a cool INIT/APPL combo.
-
- Actually, jGNEFilter is not (currently) swapped at process switch times;
- if you change jGNEFilter in one app, you've changed it in all of them.
- This makes life a little scary for jGNEFilter writers; if more than one
- person patches this vector, the earlier ones are never allowed to go
- away, because pointers to their code are stashed somewhere unknown.
-
- Scary, huh?
-
- Tim Dierks
- MacDTS pinball addict (TM)
-