[comp.sys.sgi] Iris 4D devices queues

jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen) (10/26/88)

We have an Iris 4D running 4Sight.  We are trying to experiment with a
variety of input devices.  Most of these devices send their data over
a serial port.  It would be convenient if we could have a background
process running (some sort of demon, I guess) that read and analysed
this data, and entered the appropriate values onto the device queue of 
the process with the input focus.  There is a routine called
qenter() that adds entries to a process' own device queue, but I
couldn't find one that adds to another process' queue.  Such a
routine must exist somewhere, as mouse, keyboard, dial box, etc. events
are automatically entered on the queue.  Does anyone know how 
this can be accomplished?

Thanks in advance.

Dan Christensen
jdchrist@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca