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In <1992Oct12.161759.2143@infodev.cam.ac.uk> idg10@cl.cam.ac.uk (I.D. Griffiths) writes:

<stuff about cmgh and the c compiler and problems etc. >

>*logon from within a task window under NFS causes the machine to hang.  (yup!
>NFS is written in C, even some of the low level bits...)  So basically if two
>tasks written in C are running at once, the machine will hang.  Obviously this
>only applies to SVC mode C, since user mode apps obviously seem to work.

Oh! Thats why Desktop C is incompatible with NFS!
Doesn't that meen you could never write a filing system
using cmhg - since everything using it would fall over?
(Ah yes....NFS!)

What limitations arise from this - i.e. I have written
a module in C and it works OK.  It provides a *command,
and a number of SWI's.  Both of these seem to work OK
in a task window - why should they - especialy the star command
which prints out quite a bit of information.

Does it meen I cant call a SWI in another C module, even if I preserve
R14_svc?  If so, would it fail if it wrote any data to (say) an NFS
mounted file?  - Or is this completely different?

Dave
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