[Coco] NitrOS-9 GET/PUT buffer questions
Willard Goosey
goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Mar 19 19:36:37 EDT 2012
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:59:35PM -0300, James Dessart wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
>
> > There's a system setstat call to map a gpbuffer into your process's
> > space. According to the docs there's even a synchronization system to
> > keep the same buffer from getting mapped into more than one process at
> > a time. (There's a Rainbow article about using the gpbufs for IPC.)
> > But I've never actually messed with it.
>
> Do you know, offhand, which issue it is?
As it happens, I had it bookmarked! May 1989, page 138.
Good luck!
Willard
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