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From: "Sean Keogh" <gitboy95 AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: What does locking memory do?
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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 15:31:18 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

>> What is the purpose of locking memory?  I am new to 32 bit programming,
and
>> I saw the  locking functions and have heard of them being used, and I am
>> curious.


<Lovely informative response about locking memory clipped>

Ok... I know what locking memory is, and am aware that DOS dies when
interrupt code is swapped to disk, but what does Win95 do? Does it
gracefully attempt to unswap and run the code, or does the app crash?

I'd test it myself, but I'm not really willing to crash my computer
unneccessarily... :)


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