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Hello Peter! Thursday June 20 1996 15:38, Peter Fitzsimmons wrote to Darin McBride: PF> That may have been true for 16bit OS/2, but not 32bit OS/2. You should be PF> taking _extreme_ pains to _never_ use DosEnterCritSec(). It is like using PF> a nuclear bomb to kill a field mouse. It is very multi-tasking unfriendly, PF> and will severly and adversely affect a program running on SMP os/2. I did notice that IBM VA uses it alot in their initialization code. I guess one instance where you might use it is during _DLL_InitTerm. Doug --- GoldED/2 2.50+* Origin: Realm of the Dragons - `Where thy mind hath no limits' (1:250/516) SEEN-BY: 50/99 270/101 620/243 625/100 711/401 409 410 413 430 808 809 934 SEEN-BY: 711/955 712/407 515 517 628 713/888 800/1 @PATH: 250/516 101 99 3615/50 396/1 270/101 712/515 711/808 934 |
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