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AMS_KICK - Send a KICK message to this task.

Invocation:
(void)ams_kick( name, length, value, status )

Arguments:

name = char * (given)
name of the action to be rescheduled

length = int (given)
number of significant bytes in value

value = char * (given)
message to be passed to application code

status = int * (given and returned)
global status


Description:
Sends a KICK message to this task, specifying an action to be obeyed and a message (command line) to be passed to the application code.

Implementation:
Send a soft kick interrupt message 'value' qualified by 'name' to kick queue.



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AMS The Unix ADAM Message System
Starlink User Note 241
B D Kelly (ROE)
A J Chipperfield (RAL)
16 August 2001
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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