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RE: [MiNT] to all freedom users



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Binder [mailto:gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 10:05 AM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] to all freedom users
> 
> Well, that's even in the docs of F2: As N.AES doesn't directly re-use
> APP-ids (just as MiNT does with PIDs, i.e. after the process 
> with PID 2
> exited, PID 2 won't be used until the PID counter wraps around), and
> Freedom has a fixed buffer for the applications using it, this buffer
> overflows after a while.

So when does N.AES wrap around? A quick and dirty hack would be to make a
small application that eats up apids until N.AES wraps, this should wake up
Freedom again. The obvious solution is ofcourse to fix Freedom...

Jo Even Skarstein