From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
To:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:35:24 +0300
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Subject:	Re: Windows 2000 patch for utime.c
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On 14 Aug 2001, at 12:06, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:22:21 +0300
> > 
> > If we would have such variable it could be initialized only once at 
> > startup.
> 
> Yes, I understand that.  But IMHO global variables should not be
> introduced as a matter of habit.
> 
> > Yesterday I run into trouble when tried to call 
> > _get_dos_version() in bad place inside dosexec.c.
> 
> ??? What bad place is that?  dosexec.c assumes no one uses the
> transfer buffer from some point on (there's a comment to thet effect
> in the source), but _get_dos_version doesn't use the transfer buffer.

I didn't study problem in details. It worked under Win98SE, but 
crashed under WinNT 4.0. Not using _get_dos_version() there fixed 
the crashes

Andris

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