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From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Weird locking bug
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:42:28
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> > You didn't add the selector base address to the memory, so you are
> > trying to lock the DOS memory area (a bug in the code).
> _go32_dpmi_lock_code adds the CS base to the offset before calling 
> __dpmi_lock_linear_region.

So it does, my mistake (thinking the direct dpmi call, not go32 version).
The original code starts past the null page, but sends the entire CS
selector limit as the size, so you would lock one page too many, causing
failure.

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