From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
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Subject: Re: DPMI and Page swapping
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 18:02:54 GMT
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mejm2 AT hermes DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Michael Meeks) wrote:

>	Doesn't the fun really start when tasks descriptor tables are
>paged out to disk ? dont some O.S.s do this ?

It's possible to do that, but generally, if they do, they should page
these tables in before switching to that task, unless they really want
to do much of the selector reloading themselves in the page fault
handler, and have a way to detect that this is necessary. But this is
only a problem in task switches (as in multitasking OSes), not normal
selector loading.