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- From: Mel Walker <mwalker@novell.com>
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:01:04 GMT
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- In article <keith-041192174157@kip-16.taligent.com> Keith Rollin,
- keith@taligent.com writes:
- >Yes, you can definitely call Enqueue and Dequeue at interrupt time.
- That's
- >what they are for. For instance, events such as key-down, mouse-down, and
- >disk-inserted are posted to the event queue at interrupt time with those
- >routines.
-
- Good!
-
- >All those routines do is add a record to a linked list of records. They
- >don't move memory (I'm not sure why you think they do).
-
- I was
- (a) just making sure
- (b) stupid
- (c) forgetful
- (d) all of the above
- (e) some of the above.
-
- >I believe that an upcoming issue of "develop" will have an article
- showing
- >how to use the queue routines for scheduling serialized asynchronous
- >activity.
-
- Great! Looking forward to it! That's kind of what I want to do. Now, if I
- could just get a handle on the PPC....
-
- Thanks to everyone who replied. You've all been most helpful.
-
- --Mel Walker
- mwalker@novell.com
- Disclaimer: Some Martians landed and stole my opinions. So if these
- opinions sound like they're coming from Mars, that's why.
-