From:	"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 1996 12:23:35 GMT
Subject:	bug in getmntent()

I may have found a bug in getmntent() (a v2 function which finds information
about a drive). It has a component function static int get_stacker_info(int
drive_num) to find if that drive is Stackered. It starts thus:-
static int get_stacker_info(int drive_num) {
  __dpmi_regs r;
  unsigned long stac_driver_ptr;
  unsigned long tb = _go32_info_block.linear_address_of_transfer_buffer;
  /* Put a known DWORD into the Transfer Buffer.  If this drive
     isn't compressed with Stacker, it will remain unchanged.  */
  _farpokel(dos_mem_base, tb, 0xbadabadaU);
  r.x.ax = 0x4404;      /* Stacker Get Driver Address function */
  r.h.bl = drive_num;
  r.x.cx = 4;
  r.x.ds = tb >> 4;
  r.x.dx = tb & 15;
  __dpmi_int(0x21, &r);
  if ((stac_driver_ptr = _farpeekl(dos_mem_base, tb)) == 0xbadabadaU) return 0;
  /* This drive IS compressed with Stacker.  Construct a linear address
     of the far pointer into the Stacker device driver.  */
  stac_driver_ptr = ((stac_driver_ptr >> 12) & 0xffff0)
                    + (stac_driver_ptr & 0xffff);

But on my PC, stac_driver_ptr here is neither the original 0xbadabada, nor any
pointer, but 0xffffffff:0xffffffff, thus causing an illegal address abort. My
copy of Ralf Brown's interrupt book says that DoubleSpace and DoubleDisk and
xDISK and COMBI-disk as well as Stacker all hook in version of AX=4404 int21.
I don't use any of these. My PC has the Doubledisk package on, but I don't
call it. I was running with Novell Netware active at the time.

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