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- Date: Wed, 25 May 94 13:19 CDT
- From: ekl@sdf.lonestar.org (Evan K. Langlois)
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: Re: GEMDOS re-entrancy
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- semaphores for AES, VDI and GEMDOS. The effect would be that you couldn't
- call AES while another process is inside AES, but that's exactly
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- Question, why AES and VDI? Well, they are the same trap for one. And
- I thought the calls were executed in supervisor mode so that they couldn't
- be re-entered anyway. And isn't the VDI re-entrant? Hmm .. maybe not since
- you can't call the AES from a G_USERDEF object. I don't see why the change
- would affect the VDI or AES at all. All that would be needed would be a
- single flag, or maybe instead of a flag to check, we could change the
- GEMDOS trap so that it points to a routine that puts the process on a special
- queue, when the disk IO is complete and the process that was waiting on the
- IO was done, you restore the GEMDOS trap and start pulling the processes off
- that wait queue to service them.
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- Semaphores are nice in the right place, when you just want to do nothing
- if some other process owns the semaphore, but we want to do something
- special, so in effect, the GEMDOS trap would become the semaphore.
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