Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/28/06:34:05
In article <33D5F50B DOT 1053 AT cornell DOT edu>,
asu1 AT cornell DOT edu wrote:
>
> Esa Peuha wrote:
>
> > So if I write a program that allocates all the memory it can get,
> > writes a file that fills the hard disk, and then begins to fill the
> > memory it has allocated, what will happen when there's no physical
> > free memory left? Obviously the DPMI host must page out some memory,
> > but it can't because there's no free disk space, so it must crash the
> > program. Very nice and intelligent indeed ;-)
>
> well, maybe you think i could run out and get another hard drive and
> install it in your system?
Yeah, right. "It's not _our_ problem that our software won't run with your
hardware. Consider updating it." :-)
Seriously, though, perhaps cwsdpmi could have an option to force all
allocated memory to be paged in immediately.
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