Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 1996 18:58:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Moltar Ramone <> | Subject | Re: dosemu & newer kernels |
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On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> As of 1.3.89 (or so) my old, trusty, non-emumodule dosemu-0.60.4 stopped working > :-(. Strace suggests that this is the culprit: [ ... ] > Question is, why does shmat fail? I'm far from an expert on the Linux mm system, > but perhaps a problem now exists. Again, perhaps dosemu's behavior was taking > advantage of something that had actually been broken until recently :-)..
As far as I can tell, (a) the problem is older than 1.3.89 (probably 1.3.8x somewhere, but I've not checked), and (b) the problem is only with EMS memory. (Unfortunately, this means I can't run Masters of Orion, perhaps the only reason I still use the Dosemu anyway :-/)
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