Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: IPCMessages -- A Prototype Keywords: IPC, standard, BADGE Message-ID: <2160@sugar.UUCP> Date: 22 Jun 88 19:58:53 GMT References: <6306@well.UUCP> <2139@sugar.UUCP> <6338@well.UUCP> <338@boing.UUCP> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 30 In article <338@boing.UUCP>, dale@boing.UUCP writes: > +--- From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) > | Well, there are really only three peices of information you need: the > | bitmap (BMAP), the color map (CMAP), and the display modes. The struct > | bitmap contains all the bitplanes. > My concern has nothing really to do with IPC stuff, except that these > structures may change in new releases of the o.s. In particular, since > you can only get a colormap structure from the system via GetColorMap > the 'struct ColorMap' is bigger in V1.4 Well, the "colormap" I was referring to wasn't a struct ColorMap, just the IFF CMAP chunk. But your message does emphasise that there are lots of stuff that you *do* want to ship around that *can't* be allocated in contiguous memory. Or is IFF changing in 1.4 ;->? > Just thought you should know that in order for us to make forward > progress you need to be careful about how you play with internal amiga > structures. I always am. Could you guys give us a "DEVS:" device so we can Examine and ExNext it and stop looking through the device list? There are a few other places, too, where it would be desirable to have a more secure interface... -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today?) da Silva. -- U Mail to ...!uunet!sugar!peter, flames to /dev/null. -- "A foolish consistancy is the hobgoblin of little minds".