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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1995-12-09 12:18:12
subject: Get A Handle On It !

MB>
  >                                    If a driver opened a
  > file and failed to close it during initialization, then the
  > file handle would be permanently orphaned.
MB>

  One question that I've always meant to ask.  What happens to the
  process context that is used for device driver initialisation ?
  Process 2 is (usually) PMSHELL.EXE, but what becomes of Process 1 ?

  > JdeBP <
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