From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>
Message-Id: <199811021346.OAA03283@mars.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: Out of selectors problem with bash
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 14:46:48 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.981102153443.12647D@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Nov 2, 98 03:37:57 pm
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> > Or are the selectors lost for the parent as well as for the child when the
> > child spawns?
> 
> Precisely.  The selectors belong to certain a virtual machine, i.e. to 
> the entire DOS box.
> 
> Microsoft has a talent to trap you into their bugs and misfeatures, and to
> seal all exits and work-arounds for those bugs.  It's almost as if they
> considered every possible way out you would think about and consistently
> blocked every one of them. 

Sigh. And bug isn't corrected in WINDOZE 4.1 (98) i suppose? Anyone know?


Right,

							MartinS