On Monday, 97/01/13, Andrew Grillet wrote to James R. Cook about
"DosRead blocking" as follows:

AG> I understood that DosEnterCritSec was just another name for 
AG> disable_interrupts.
AG> 
AG> Is that not the case?

Hi Andrew,

No, it isn't.

A call to DosEnterCritSec() simply tells the OS/2 dispatcher not to
dispatch any other threads within that process. The process can be
pre-empted and other processes dispatched.

Regards

Dave


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