Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:07:44 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: How to program a deamon?
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On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Hela Wann wrote:

> How can i program a deamon, that runs in the background without slowing
> the mashine too much?

It's not clear from your message what are the problems you are trying
to solve.  Please describe them.

If you need a way for a background program to release its time slice
when it has nothing to do, and if you need that on Windows, you can
use the library function `__dpmi_yield'.