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Re: future "safety" of MiG based projects

On May 5, 2004, at 9:54 AM, Jim Magee wrote:

Sorry for the delay responding,

On Apr 13, 2004, at 12:23 PM, David Leimbach wrote:
I noticed that on Panther the APIs for task_get_bootstrap_port are not "advertised" as they once were.

Officially, in Panther (i.e. Apple's Mac OS X product), they were never APIs. All Mach-ish things are SPIs in Apple products (with CFMachPort straddling the API/SPI line). But with that public service announcement aside, how has this interface's treatment changed in Panther? It is still there in <mach/task_special_ports.h> which is still reachable from:

#include <mach/mach.h> // the only Mach kernel header you should be including directly in applications

Are you somehow missing those files even after installing the developer packages? They should be there (and are on all my Panther machines). Or are you more concerned about the bootstrap_xxx() APIs themselves? These are published in:

#include <servers/bootstrap.h> // a set of services for registering and looking up mach ports "by name"

Yeah I finally tracked down where it was all coming from. I thought perhaps I was lucking out on the
C89 assumption that when a function has no prototype it is assumed to exist and return an int.


Thanks!

Dave
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