Re: [CODE] Warmboot Patch

From: Mark A. Heilpern (heilpern@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: 07/13/98


At 02:51 PM 7/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>But what would you do in Windows95? When a program's being run in Win95, you
>can't overwrite it's code. I've tried, and it gives some dinky message box:
>"Unable to overwrite. File may already be in use by Windows."
>

The warmboot (copyover) patch uses the un*x fork() system call;
as far as I know, WindowsXX has no equivelent. Unless I'm wrong
in this, there's nothing you can do under that O/S to solve this
problem.


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