To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Need "fancy" trick... Message-ID: <19961226.233626.4983.3.chambersb@juno.com> References: Conversation with last message From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 02:32:05 EST On Wed, 25 Dec 96 22:33:52 PST Gene Buckle writes: [big snip] >Eli, my understanding of system() and the spawn() functions leads me >to = >belive that the program that issues those calls could be swapped out >of = >memory. This would be VERY bad. If that is not the case, I'm still >susp= >icious. It's just _too_ easy of a solution. ;) > Why not just lock the memory? That way, it never get's swapped to disk. Hurts the available memory, but works. ...Chambers