DOS ain't dead - hardly a 100% solution

hardly a 100% solution (Developers)

posted by Ninho , 30.05.2011, 21:14

> > "Alternate method 1" sketched in my previous post, under CLI, would
> > completely prevent the potential for such nuisance.
>
> No, because as I alluded to, resident code could allocate the memory that
> would be required for your optimal allocation (say, a UMB of just the right
> size) before you enter your protected section of code.

Oh no, that is not considered a problem, it's no different than if the resident had done that allocation 5 minutes /before/ we launched KBFR ! Nobody can or wants to prevent that :=)

What poses a problem is if the resident could try and succeed to reserve memory while our critical section executes, only.

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Ninho

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