Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:12:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: Allocate physical memory?
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On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> But surely in order to provide VDS services, the memory manager would 
> have to be the same thing (or at least very closely integrated) with 
> the DPMI server? VDS needs the ability to remap pages into specific 
> physical memory locations, and then prevent them from being moved until 
> the buffer is unlocked, and I don't see how any other memory manager 
> could do this while cwsdpmi is active

I think that since CWSDPMI uses services provided by the memory manager
(if there is one) to get memory from the system, and the memory manager
also provides the VDS services, this problem is taken care of
automagically.