From: pavenis AT lanet DOT lv Message-ID: To: Frank Heckenbach , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 11:51:24 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: __dpmi_yield() In-reply-to: <3167721A.19990524220846.FOO-4336.frank@goedel.fjf.gnu.de> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Tested with DOSEMU-0.99.11 (kernel-2.2.9, glibc-2.1, ...) running MS-DOS 7.1 (one from Win95-OSR2) I'm getting output from test example: 27 0 It means that __dpmi_yield call fails. Andris On 24 May 99, at 22:08, Frank Heckenbach wrote: > > > Now, I don't know if the problem is with DJGPP or another program. > > > The relevant program versions are Linux 2.2.9, DosEmu 0.98.4, NWDOS > > > 7.0, CWSDPMI 0.90+ (r3), DJGPP 2.02, GCC 2.8.1 -- hope I didn't > > > forget anything. ;-) > > > > Perhaps the real cause of the problem is NWDOS? Could you try this > > with another DOS work-alike, or with MS-DOS? > > No, sorry, I don't have another one handy. > > > > But if it should be fixed elsewhere, I'd appreciate any pointers to > > > the correct place to ask. > > > > Perhaps you could ask the Linux DOSEmu gurus about this (I don't know > > the appropriate forum; anybody?). If they say that it should be > > supported, then perhaps the DOS version is the culprit. > > OK, I'll mail it to dosemu-bugs AT dosemu DOT org . > > > In any case, it's impossible to revert to the old behavior of issuing > > INT 2Fh directly. Personally, even doing that for DOSEmu alone > > (provided that we have a reliable way of detecting it) is not > > something I would recommend. It is one thing to work around Windows > > bugs, but doing the same with free software such as DOSEmu where > > everything should be open to scrutiny and any bugs should be fixable, > > doesn't sound good. > > I see. I just hope it's a problem of DosEmu, not of NWDOS where it > couldn't be fixed easily. > > Frank > > -- > Frank Heckenbach, frank AT fjf DOT gnu DOT de > http://fjf.gnu.de/ > PGP and GPG keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan >