From: "Sander Pool" <dutchguy DOT removethis AT nospam DOT pacbell DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: call to 'open' causes all sleeping drives to awaken!
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:05:41 -0800
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"Ben Peddell" <lightspeed85 AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
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>> Why not find out whether the drives are spinning-up before or after the
> open() is issued, by printing something before the open(), and waiting for
> user input.

I could do that but I suspect that printf uses open() as well so it wouldn't
prove anything. It would be better to remove the open() call and see if the
same thing happens.

> If it is occurring before the open(), then it is probably the stub loader
> searching for CWSDPMI.EXE on the path. If you don't want this to happen,
> then ensure that DPMI is active before running the program.

I'll check it out but like I reported, MinGW doesn't have this problem so I
see no reason to change my system config to make DJGPP work. I know there
are probably a lot of good reasons to use DJGPP over MinGW but I don't want
to (re)start a religious war over that :-) I'm merely reporting a problem
that someone may want to reproduce and fix.

Thanks,

  Sander