Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/02/03:59:39
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Are there any plans to implement the multitasking functions of BASH?
There's no shortage of plans; what we need are volunteers who could
carry those plans out. ;-)
Implementing multi-processing under DPMI is a notoriously difficult
task, since DPMI spec doesn't allow you to task-switch from within a
hardware interrupt handler (such as a timer tick). Several ideas were
discussed over the years to work around this limitation, but no ready
solutions are available yet (AFAIK).
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