jjfeiler@tybalt.caltech.edu (John J. Feiler) (08/25/88)
Is it true that file I/O cannot be done from within a spawned task? I'm trying to create a task to handle file loading and unloading, but it doesn't seem to do anything but crash. Do I need a process instead of a task? If so, does anyone have any examples of how I should go about spawning a new process, cleaning up, etc. Thanks John ============== John Feiler "Life's like a jigsaw, you get the 709 Locust #7 straight bits, but there's something Pasadena, CA 91101 missing in the middle..." jjfeiler@tybalt.caltech.edu -- XTC What's the difference between a duck? ==============
mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst ) (08/29/88)
In article <7683@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> jjfeiler@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (John J. Feiler) writes: >Is it true that file I/O cannot be done from within a spawned task? I'm >trying to create a task to handle file loading and unloading, but it doesn't >seem to do anything but crash. Do I need a process instead of a task? If >so, does anyone have any examples of how I should go about spawning a new >process, cleaning up, etc. > Thanks > John > Hello, yes that is TRUE. You cannot call any DOS function (even DOS related functions like OpenLibrary a disk based library) from a simple 'task'. I have posted an article dealing with this problem (someone wanted to save intermediate results during a calculation). I will make an example for creating processes and post this next week. Michael van Elst E-mail: UUCP: ...seismo!unido!fauern!faui44!mlelstv E-mail: UUCP: ...uunet!unido!fauern!faui44!mlelstv <- when seismo ceases operation