From:	ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Does Windows 98 lose DMPI descriptors?
Date:	18 Feb 1999 20:05:19 GMT
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Daniel Barker (sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: In the DJGPP FAQ I read about problems with some versions of Windows
: losing DMPI descriptors, causing a program which spawns many other DJGPP
: programs to eventually crash in the attempt.
[...]
: So, is the problem absent with Windows 98? Or was this a poor test? Does
: the problem still exist with other modern versions of Windows? 

Well it seems that your test isn't that good. On my WINDOZE 4.1 (98)
system the bug is very much still present. (When did Microsnoft fix
any bugs?)

A better test would probably be to loop over something that starts
another program, not an internal command.


Right,

							MartinS

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