Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 543 from 2007/8/6
From: Pending...
I'm starting to regret giving away my RKMs... Can anyone recommend a good discussion or primer on process initialisation as it applies to MorphOS? My goal is to create a new process that doesn't have to initialise itself any differently to a 'normal', user-started process.
I'm particularly interested to know how to initialise the following tags marked with a '*'. Is it acceptable for the parent process to simply copy certain fields from its own process structure to pair with these tags?
Code:
NP_Seglist
NP_FreeSeglist
NP_Entry
NP_Input *
NP_Output *
NP_CloseInput *
NP_CloseOutput *
NP_Error *
NP_CloseError *
NP_CurrentDir *
NP_StackSize
NP_Name
NP_Priority
NP_ConsoleTask * (How is this different to NP_Cli ?)
NP_WindowPtr * (Just out of curiousity, can a parent and child process draw to the same window?)
NP_HomeDir *
NP_CopyVars * (How is this used?)
NP_Cli *
NP_Path *
NP_CommandName
NP_Arguments * (Is this just a string pointer?)
NP_NotifyOnDeath
NP_Synchronous
NP_ExitCode
NP_ExitData
NP_SeglistArray
NP_UserData
NP_StartupMsg
NP_TaskMsgPort * (Does the parent create this or is it handled by process creation?)
NP_TaskFlags
NP_CodeType
NP_PPC_Arg1
NP_PPC_Arg2
NP_PPC_Arg3
NP_PPC_Arg4
NP_PPC_Arg5
NP_PPC_Arg6
NP_PPC_Arg7
NP_PPC_Arg8
NP_PPCStackSize
PPC assembly ain't so bad... ;)
