Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!ucbvax!CORY.BERKELEY.EDU!dillon From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Spawning tasks which draw . . . Message-ID: <8712081929.AA17657@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 14:29:12 EST Article-I.D.: cory.8712081929.AA17657 Posted: Tue Dec 8 14:29:12 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 12:57:15 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 18 Assumptions: PopCLI-like program where child and parent are in the same segment. Where Parent must be able to kill the child and know exactly when the child no longer exists. Parent spawns child at low priority Child runs Parent wants to kill child: Parent sends child a prearranged signal and increases child's priority. Parent then Waits for a reply. Child sends Parent a prearranged signal when it is ready to die Child does a Wait(0). Parent kills child. (rather than child kills itself). As far as RemTask goes, it doesn't care if the task in question is waiting or running.... or in the middle of a critical library call! -Matt