Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!eris!spencer From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The zero lock Message-ID: <9826@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 11 May 88 00:53:21 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) Organization: Infinity Software :-) Lines: 30 Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* neil@spam.UUCP (Neil Katin) wrote: ...In article <8805032135.AA26451@decwrl.dec.com> rmeyers@tle.dec.com (Randy Meyers 381-2743 ZKO2-3/N30) writes: ...>AmigaDOS supports a special lock who's value is zero. ... ...A good article, with one point that's wrong (or at least not strictly true). ...A lock of zero refers to the disk handler pointed to by your process's ...pr_FileSystemTask. This is (by default) the boot disk, but can be ...changed. ... ...It is DF0: on most amiga's because most amigas were booted from df0: ... ... Neil Katin Wait, This can't be right. I boot from RAD: and my Zero lock points to DF0: still. Infact this came up at the developers conference and I remember hearing that the C/A people were not to thrilled with the idea of the Zero lock always meaning the boot device (since that don't work now) and they thought instead there would be a logical boot: assign to point to the boot device, and that Zero lock would just always point to df0:. If anyone knows different I would love to hear... Randy (finally back from sight seeing in D.C.) Spencer ps. Thanks to all who made that such a wonderful developers conference! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-