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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:35:57 +0300
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On 17 Aug 2001, at 12:54, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> Andris said:
> > > However, I'd like to see that patch changed so that plain DOS systems
> > > aren't affected at all.  Why slow down systems which don't need that?
> > > We already have the _windows_major variable that can be used to easily
> > > test for whether we are on Windows, and _get_dos_version(1) can be
> > > used for NT/W2K/XP.
> > 
> > Ok. But I would not like to rely only on Windows presence. One can 
> > try to run DJGPP applications under DOSEMU under Linux and in this 
> > case I have seen descriptors leak (as far as I remeber) at least with 
> > some versions. We may also have bad DPMI providers for DOS which 
> > leaks descriptors. 
> > 
> > So I would prefer to look whether we have good DPMI server.
> 
> Yes. But I imagine that dosemu isn't one of the non-good. Or if it
> is, that the dosemu team wants to know about it.
> 
> And if some versions do leak but later versions have been corrected, I
> think you're supposed to upgrade instead of punishing those that do
> use correct versions.
> 

Verified that I have LDT descriptors leaks under dosemu-1.0.2 (latest
stable version). Patch for workarounding them works Ok

Andris