[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Spawning an independent, concurent process

dlarson@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dale Larson) (08/19/89)

/* Go ahead, eat this line... */

I am trying to load and start a process to run concurently with
the parent process.  The problem is that I keep getting visits
from the guru when I try the CreateProc.  Below are two VERY
short programs that I am compiling with Aztec 3.6a.  The first is
supposed to load and start the second which is just supposed to send
some junk to my debug terminal.

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/*  Program 1 */

#include <libraries/dos.h>
main()
{
	LONG newseg;

	if ( (newseg = LoadSeg("test"))  != 0L)
	{
		printf ("Successfully loaded segment to %ld.\n", newseg);
		if ( (CreateProc("mytest", 0L, newseg, 4000L) ) != 0L)
		{
			puts("Successfully CreateProc'ed");
			/* Yeah, I realize that this loses some memory and that
               at some point in the future I would need to UnLoadSeg */
		}
		else
		{
			puts("failed CreateProc.");
			UnLoadSeg(newseg);
			puts("unloaded.");
		}

	}
	else
	{
		puts("failed LoadSeg.");
	}
}


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/*  program 2 */


#include <libraries/dos.h>
main()
{
	KPutStr ("I was here...");
	Delay(500L);
	KPutStr ("But now I'm leaving!");
}


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Pray tell, to what depths of stupidity have I fallen this time?

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 dTb                                                                       dTb
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rtczegledi@crocus.waterloo.edu (Richard Czegledi) (08/20/89)

Hi ho! did you say terminal?

Maybe then you know how to enter the ROM Wack?

I have a vintage 1000, a televideo term (set at 9600 8n1) usualy attached
to my miga, and once, during a routine guru or something, my
terminal came alive with the wonders of wack.

Shortly after depressing a few buttons on Mr. T. Terminal, the machine
decided to GURU anyway.

I seem to recall reviewing a passage in the old (1.1 ugh ugh ughhh) rkm's,
but I can't seem to find it again.  Maybe I lost that book.
I have the purple hardware, the green intuition, and the orange rom one
at present.  I probably 'lent' it to someone forever without my concious
mind realizing it.
 
Anyway, could you give me the bootblock sized synopsis on what wonderous
things the whacky wack will do for me?

I know this message seems to be in WizOoZ speak, but hey?