Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!unido!iraun1!iraul1!joachim From: joachim@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Joachim Lindenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: sharing data between cdevs and INITs Keywords: INIT cdev Message-ID: <672@iraun1.ira.uka.de> Date: 20 Aug 88 07:18:09 GMT References: <1739@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@iraun1.ira.uka.de Reply-To: joachim@iraul1.UUCP (Joachim Lindenberg) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, West Germany Lines: 9 In article <1739@microsoft.UUCP> t-benw@microsoft.uucp (Benjamin Waldman) writes: >Does anyone out there have a suggestion for sharing data between a cdev >and a patch installed as an INIT? > Use the INIT to load a driver which does the actual work. The driver may use a handle stored in its DCtlEntry to hold its variables. The cdev will have to scan the unit table for the driver and use the same handle. Joachim