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Chapter 2 - Event Manager / Event Manager Reference

Event Manager Routines / Converting Process Serial Numbers and Port Names

GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName

Use GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName to get the process serial number of a process.

FUNCTION GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName 
            (portName: PPCPortRec;
             VAR PSN: ProcessSerialNumber): OSErr;

portName

The port name registered to a process whose serial number you want.

PSN

Returns the process serial number of the process designated by the portName parameter. You can use the returned process serial number to send a high-level event to that process. Do not interpret the value of the process serial number.

DESCRIPTION

The GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName function returns the process serial number of the process registered at a specific port.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

The GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName function does not move or purge memory but for other reasons should not be called from within an interrupt, such as
in a completion routine or VBL task.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for the GetProcessSerialNumberFromPortName function are

Trap macro	Selector
_OSDispatch	$0035

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
noPortErr	-903	Invalid port name

SEE ALSO

For a description of the PPCPortRec data type, see the chapter "Program-to-Program Communications Toolbox" in Inside Macintosh: Interapplication Communication.