Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Japheth, (changing subj from Some FreeDOS kernel bugs reported by Jack R. Ellis and moving the issue to freedos-kernel...) ... just reported a bug/issue found in the FreeDOS kernel: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/... I guess a few people will have bad mood after reading this, so it

Re: [Freedos-kernel] [Freedos-devel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Tom Ehlert
2. It is way slower in file copy/compare than other DOSes. (maybe we should make FAT and DIR data access smarter?) depends on a couple of factors; the huge threat on http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum about FreeDOS is slow was less then scientific a) COPY FreeDOS allocates always the

Re: [Freedos-kernel] flaws in user HMA memory allocation?

2007-09-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, thanks for your feedback :-) 2. It is way slower in file copy/compare than other DOSes. (maybe we should make FAT and DIR data access smarter?) ... FreeDOS allocates always the lowest unused cluster, even if the file should be enlarged by a large ( 1 cluster) amount.