RE: [AD] DOS port instability under Win 9X

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Subject: RE: [AD] DOS port instability under Win 9X
From: "Vincent Penquerc'h" <Vincent.Penquerch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:32:20 +0100

Title: RE: [AD] DOS port instability under Win 9X

> Ok, it looks like there is some nasty interaction between
> __dpmi_yield(),
> the keyboard interrupt handling code and a third undetermined
> factor. We
> can't do much more though than keeping that in mind for the
> time being.

Hmm, since it does not happen in small programs, could it be memory
that is not locked, which gets swapped out (since yielding will likely
swap out stuff for a large program) and accessed by some interrupt
driven code (thus page faulting) ?

--
Vincent Penquerc'h

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