Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/03/10/06:05:59
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> I've thought about STR-ing in the djgpp start-up code
^^^^^^^
What's that?
> but unless I'm
> mistaking we cannot rely on the fact that our DJGPP program runs at
> protection level 0, can we?
No, we can't. Actually ring 3 is the more common case, IIRC.
> > It is good enough as long as you are on DOS, where only one program runs
> > at any given time (so PID's of those which don't run don't matter).
> > Windows breaks this.
>
> For once not a BUG in Winblows :-)
Yup. And then, of course, `getpid' is not used for temporary files
inside the library, so the situation is not so bad, even on Windows.
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