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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: DupLock function
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Date: 26 Sep 88 05:34:59 GMT
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In article <218@snll-arpagw.UUCP> (Sam Paolucci) writes:
>Does anybody know if DupLock returns the LOWEST file descriptor that the
>process is not currently using (as the UNIX dup function)?  Thanks.

DupLock() does not return a "file descriptor", it returns a BCPL pointer 
to some memory it allocated to hold the FileLock structure. Anyway,
it doesn't work in anyway like the UNIX dup() function.

--Chuck McManis
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