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echo: os2prog
to: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
from: Mario Semo
date: 1996-03-15 11:33:56
subject: Pre-Loading

Hello Jonathan,

On Mar 10 23:20 96, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard of 2:440/4 wrote:

  >>  JdeBP>   Use the EXEC_LOAD flag to DosExecPgm.  It's that 
  >>
 JdBP> DosKillProcess + DosWaitChild.

 JdBP> EMXLOAD misses out the DosWaitChild step, and it's my 


whats the reason for the waitchild? (i'm also not doing it). 

PS: the VACPP people explained a problem they had with CSET++ 2.1 with the
preloader. here's from their note:


  Anyway.  It seems that DosKillProcess will thaw a frozen process
  for some small amount of time before actual[ ly killing it.  In
  previous versions of the program, this would let the program run
  far enough to get a signal handler registered,
 WARPED!, Mario

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