Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:15:05 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Exclusive access to drive
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On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Hmmm.  Where do you think the problem lies then?  CHKDSK? or
> DJGPP, or DPMI?

I'm clueless.  When CHKDSK is run from a DJGPP program, it should be no
different from it running from the DOS box.  DPMI has no effect on CHKDSK
unless Microsoft have explicitly made it check for its presence (and even
then I don't understand why should it care).  When our programs run on
Windows 95, they don't even have an open file, since the page file is
managed by Windows, so there really is no problem related to the
filesystem integrity.  That's why I said that it seems like they wanted it
to be too safe.