Re: [MiNT] GEMDOS from a interrupt?

[Konrad Kokoszkiewicz <draco@mi.com.pl>]

> I'm currently modifying Thierry Bousch's lpdev to spool to disk. As
> usual I've started coding long before I started thinking...
> 
> Spooling to disk works fine, but now that I'm going to work on the
> disk->printer code I believe I have a problem: Is it possible to call
> GEMDOS from a interrupt? I need to read from the spool-file from time
> to time (25K bursts), if this can't be done from the
> centronics-interrupt (MFP-int 0) I'll have to find another way to do
> it...

Yes.

Register an interrupt using Psigintr() to send a signal to a daemon
process, then this process while handling the signal can call GEMDOS...

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Konrad M.Kokoszkiewicz
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