Some senseless babbling from Ivan Todoroski to Mario Semo
on 07 Dec 98  23:16:00 about Guess who's back... ;)...

 IT> On Friday, 4 December 1998,
 IT> MARIO SEMO wrote to IVAN TODOROSKI about Guess who's back... ;)
 
 IT>>   Also, Process Commander does NOT do "who knows
what". The way it
 IT>> changes other process' priority is totaly documented and supported by
 IT>> the OS/2 API. It is a simple DosSetPriority() call. Don't see
 
 MS> wasn't it PC who added a second thread to EACH application in the
 IT> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 MS> system? or something else added to the system with WARP4. at least

 IT> Hey?! That's EXACTLY what I'm seeing here! You think PC did that? I
 IT> never bothered to check it without PC, but as you (and others) say
 IT> that they haven't seen such a thing on their machines, I believe
 IT> you. 

I've got two machines with Warp 4 installed, but at FP7 level.  Only one 
has Process Commander, and only one has that extra time critical thread.

The conclusion is that it's pretty damn likely :)

 IT> I stand corrected... It seems that there IS a certain amount of
 IT> black magic involved after all. It really does "who knows what".
 IT> :) 

Something you need to understand is that DosSetPriority() will only work on 
the current process and its children.

Process Commander replaces PMSHELL.EXE (for the first copy), presumably so 
that it can be the parent process of all other running processes.

For the extra thread, I am not certain.  It might have something to do with 
its process kill feature, or it might be a sneaky way to use 
DosSetPriority() for processes which are for some reason not child 
processes of PMSHELL.EXE (the first copy).

 MS> every and each app in the system has (under WARP4) one thread more
 MS> then under WARP3. i name this "do who knowns what". ( as i reember
 MS> it was the application which was previously (under OS2 3.x) called
 MS> WatchCat. isnt this PC today?).

 IT> Well it must be, because I used WatchCat prior to PC, and couldn't
 IT> help noticing that they are ALMOST IDENTICAL (the ctrl-alt-del part,
 IT> anyway).

I think Stardock hired/consulted with the person(s) who wrote WatchCat.
 
Mike Ruskai
thanny{at}home.com


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