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Subject: Re: Building a VxD for win95 for zero page protection
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:00:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
In-Reply-To: <387D06D6.37ACD589@tudor21.net> from "Richard Dawe" at Jan 12, 2000 10:57:26 PM
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Bonjour

> I think writing a VxD like this could be very useful. It might be possible
> to use it to implement shared memory between DOS boxes, which would allow
> a number of problems to be solved, e.g.
> 
> 1. Arbitrarily long command lines (no transfer buffer limit)
> 2. Possible fork() support?
> 3. Easy Unix domain sockets (rather than using the mailslots as in
> libsocket) or other interprocess communication
> 4. Shared memory

This, for a lack of better, would be real CooooooooL 8-)
It could open a door to many wonders.

But did not you do a Shared memory lib before ?


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au revoir, alain
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Aussi haut que l'on soit assis, on n'est toujours assis que sur son cul !!!