Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:05:06 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	mejm2 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Keyboard Handlers
In-Reply-To:	<5jopni$s19@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
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On 24 Apr 1997, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 	Is locking memory really a problem in reality ? I thought it was
> to stop interrupt handlers getting paged out by the VMM ?

Yes, that's the real danger.  However, since a few people have
scrogged their hard disks when they didn't lock their handlers,
CWSDPMI now aborts programs that don't lock hardware interrupt
handlers even if the memory is abundant.

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