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How to recognize which child process has just died
Hi! The piece of software I'm working on now needs to fork child processes and execute different programs (which terminate themselves). Also, some child processes need to be killed/stopped/resumed and action needs to be taken when a child is terminated. When the parent receives & traps the... -
video memory address
I have to write a screensaver that displays a bitmap on the screen. The program has to be written in C using WinApi, but the procedure that fills the screen has to be written in assembly. My quetion is: After creating a fulscreen window, how do I get it's memory address to pass it to the...- wookie2
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- Forum: Win API (Microsoft)
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Where do the serial port addresses come from?
Some of you didn't understand my problem :). I don't need to know what the addresses are on my machine. I have to write a program that finds the number and the addresses of serial ports. It has to be a protected mode program and it has to do it's job on every machine.- wookie2
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Where do the serial port addresses come from?
OK, thanks.- wookie2
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Where do the serial port addresses come from?
Hey! After POST, BIOS is writing serial port addresses to 0040:0000. I need to know how it gets to know these adresses, to write a protected mode program (0040:0000 inaccesible) that does the same. Or are the addresses always the same (3f8 - COM1, 2f8 - COM2, 3e8 - COM3 and 2e8 - COM4)? And how... -
Where do the serial port addresses come from?
Hey! After POST, BIOS is writing serial port addresses to 0040:0000. I need to know how it gets to know these adresses, to write a protected mode program (0040:0000 inaccesible) that does the same. Or are the addresses always the same (3f8 - COM1, 2f8 - COM2, 3e8 - COM3 and 2e8 - COM4)? And how...- wookie2
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
