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Re: lynx-dev PATCH [dev21]: source caching


From: dickey
Subject: Re: lynx-dev PATCH [dev21]: source caching
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:20:32 -0400 (EDT)

> Wrong. DJGPP applications runs with DPMI dos extender 
> which allocate memory and manage virtual pages. 
> On exit from application all allocated memory returned to the system. 
> (No memory problem with dev21, Doug reported a problem with restoring 
> a BREAK signal on exit, completely different story). 

you're right - I hadn't gotten to processing Doug's patch yet, and was
thinking about a similarly-named Unix symbol (brk or ebrk) which denotes
the limit of the process address space.
  
> Not sure how DJGPP will serve several application, 
> share the memory etc., probably no multitasking here. 
>  
> >>                                              -sbigham 

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