Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/26/02:19:47
On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Gene Buckle wrote:
> Eli, my understanding of system() and the spawn() functions leads me to
> belive that the program that issues those calls could be swapped out of
> memory. This would be VERY bad.
Your interrupt handler needs to be in locked memory, then it will never
be swapped. This has nothing to do with the way you call the child
programs. DJGPP has a library function to lock regions of memory (see
the docs of `__dpmi_lock_linear_region' in the libc reference).
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