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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Question for Cliff?
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 23:27:20 -0700
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- >>>>> "William" == William Gnichtel <WangFU@msn.com> writes:
- In article <000120b2+0000010e@msn.com> WangFU@msn.com (William Gnichtel) writes:
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- William> Cliff, a while back in a phone conversation I had with
- William> you, you mentioned system 7 spoofing for exec2. I am
- William> wondering will you be implimenting thread managment or
- William> the ability to load an external thread manager (as an
- William> extention) as well as the ability to load other
- William> extentions? Thread managment seems to be a hanging point
- William> for executor... most apps that do not require the thread
- William> manager seem to work to the point that I can get them to
- William> come up. How hard would it be add thread managment? How
- William> far are you planning on taking this sys7 "spoofing"?
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- "Spoofing" means to pretend like a given task is being done when asked
- to do it, but not really doing it. That works for things like sound,
- where the application will say "play this sound" and Executor can just
- tell the application "done -- it's played" even without making any
- noise. The application will be happy and never know that it's been
- spoofed.
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- You can't spoof the thread manager, because of the way applications
- use it. They're going to say "start up this new thread" and expect
- the thread to actually get started. It's not sufficient to say "OK,
- that thread is started" when it's not.
-
- Most likely thread manager support won't occur in the next six months.
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- William> -Thanx
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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