Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:15:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 30 Jan 2000, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> But I wondered what would happen if the processor was in some DOZE
> call, an interrupt comes along (I'm assuming that DOZE can be
> interrupted) which some code (not necessarily DJGPP code) handles by
> invalidating the CS selector and then returns to the DOZE call. What
> would happen now (in the DOZE call)?

If you mean the DJGPP CS selector, then invalidating it will not do
any harm to the DOS call itself, since it doesn't use our selectors.

But the moment the DOS call does an IRET, the DJGPP application will
crash.