DOS ain't dead - polling

polling (Announce)

posted by ecm , Düsseldorf, Germany, 01.06.2011, 16:07

> My anti-social polling of the network adapter
> is making the DOS box run continuously, pegging one of my CPU cores.

If it's supported (as in NTVDM) you can call Int2F.1680 every time the packet polling loop found no packet. You could default to HLT if the service isn't supported, or you could execute HLT only as an option.

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mTCP Open Source release - mbbrutman, 27.05.2011, 23:47 (Announce)
- mTCP GPL - ecm, 27.05.2011, 23:58
  - GPLv3 - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 00:20
    - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 00:55
      - GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:09
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:18
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 28.05.2011, 01:25
        download, compile, ... - ecm, 28.05.2011, 01:30
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 09:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 15:32
        What does the GPL allow? - ecm, 30.05.2011, 16:08
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 16:30
        GPL something - ecm, 30.05.2011, 17:08
        GPL something - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 18:05
        theoretical licensing problems and such - ecm, 30.05.2011, 18:28
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:34
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:33
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 31.05.2011, 13:59
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 01:16
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 01:53
        licensing again... executables - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 02:17
        licensing again... executables - ecm, 01.06.2011, 15:49
        What does the GPL allow? - Rugxulo, 30.05.2011, 18:14
        mTCP in DOSEMU; Linux kernel developers' GPLv2-only reasons - ecm, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:49
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 03:41
        What does the GPL allow? - mbbrutman, 31.05.2011, 04:18
        What does the GPL allow? - Japheth, 30.05.2011, 18:47
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - ecm, 30.05.2011, 19:20
        Gift trolls and other curiosities - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 19:54
        editing - ecm, 30.05.2011, 20:03
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:38
        What does the GPL allow? - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:37
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 30.05.2011, 22:35
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 30.05.2011, 22:56
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 02.06.2011, 16:10
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - mbbrutman, 03.06.2011, 04:12
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - marcov, 03.06.2011, 13:36
        GPL: either version 3 of the license, or any later version - Rugxulo, 03.06.2011, 16:45
- mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 31.05.2011, 09:03
  - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 03:11
    - mTCP and SwsVPkt - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 13:14
      - mTCP and SwsVPkt - mbbrutman, 01.06.2011, 15:04
    - polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 16:07
      - polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 17:12
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 17:27
        polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 17:50
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 17:55
        polling - Japheth, 01.06.2011, 18:39
        polling - ecm, 01.06.2011, 18:49
        polling - Rugxulo, 02.06.2011, 00:37
        polling - ecm, 02.06.2011, 00:52
        polling - Japheth, 02.06.2011, 05:42
        polling - mbbrutman, 04.06.2011, 04:13
        polling - ecm, 04.06.2011, 06:50
        polling - Arjay, 04.06.2011, 10:46
        polling - mbbrutman, 16.07.2011, 22:09
        polling - Ninho, 17.07.2011, 12:59
        polling - mbbrutman, 17.07.2011, 23:05
        polling - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 11:22
        polling - mbbrutman, 18.07.2011, 16:05
        polling - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 17:28
        IGNORE! no text, posting error - Ninho, 18.07.2011, 17:30
        polling - mbbrutman, 18.07.2011, 17:41
        polling - ecm, 21.08.2011, 16:28