Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:56:56 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Richard Dawe cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Signal & setitimer In-Reply-To: <3917133A.3DA897B1@bigfoot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 May 2000, Richard Dawe wrote: > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Since DOS and Windows programs run in different virtual machines, they > > cannot directly inherit file handles. conagent.exe is a TSR that > > Windows installs in a DOS box to work around that problem, and redir32 > > augments it. > > Are these two programs freely available? They are part of stock Windows 9X distribution. You should be able to find them in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. > They sound like they could be > used to simulate multi-threadedness in some way, by using the start > command under Windows. If you use START to run a DJGPP program, conagent is automatically loaded into the VM that START creates. I think redir32 is also loaded. The problem is how to communicate with them from another VM that is not the system VM, and from a program that is not a native Win32 program. Someone (tm) needs to figure out how does this work and then see whether it's possible to exploit that for our needs. I'm not holding my breath ;-).