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Date: | Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:05:06 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | mejm2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: Keyboard Handlers |
In-Reply-To: | <5jopni$s19@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.970427120437.17804N-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On 24 Apr 1997, Michael Meeks wrote: > Is locking memory really a problem in reality ? I thought it was > to stop interrupt handlers getting paged out by the VMM ? Yes, that's the real danger. However, since a few people have scrogged their hard disks when they didn't lock their handlers, CWSDPMI now aborts programs that don't lock hardware interrupt handlers even if the memory is abundant.
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