Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:52:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Olivier Perron <perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Computer freeze when using latest version of vim and bash as inferior shell
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Olivier Perron wrote:
> 
> > I have sometimes a computer freeze when I use vim version 5.2 with the
> > DJGPP port of bash as inferior shell in a DOS box under Windows 95.
> 
> There's a known problem with DJGPP programs that call the __dpmi_yield 
> library function in their idle loop.  Some rare installations of Windows 
> 95 cause DOS box to hang when that function is called after a DJGPP 
> program has spawned another DJGPP program.
> 
> I can mail you a modified source for __dpmi_yield which works around this 
> bug in Windows, but you'd need to rebuild Bash from sources to fix this 
> problem.
> 

Ok, I've rebuild bash with the modified source for __dpmi_yield, but
now I can't even do a ls or cat command in bash. If I type ls <RET>,
nothing happens and I lost control in the dos box.

Are you sure you gave me the right source for __dpmi_yield ?

Regards,
Olivier