Re: [MiNT] using pexec() to load an overly

[Lonny Pursell <gfabasic@hotmail.com>]

on 12/24/03 4:28 PM, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz at draco@obta.uw.edu.pl wrote:

>> I looked in the change log for the kernel and all I can find is some
>> references to processes not being allowed to free their own basepage
>> (malloc/mshrink) but I don't know if that is the reason or not.
> 
> Theoretically it is only illegal to free own basepage. Honestly I still
> don't understand from your description why a process would need to free own
> basepage, if this is the case.

I have prg1 load prg2.  I then try to free the basepage of prg2 when I
am done with it.  This works fine with old kernel, but fails when I
boot the latest kernel.   I suppose a debug kernel might give me some
clues as to what is going on.

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Lonny Pursell