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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2002 23:25:42 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: boot hang... still

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In <3D390BD6.D05@peterskye.com>, on 07/19/02
at 11:07 PM, Peter Skye said:

>------ a. Call the appropriate OS/2 routine with the key and subkey
>values and add/delete/change the datastring, or
>------ b. Read the file into memory, modify it using your own code, and
>write it back out. And hope that the WPS hasn't done anything to it in
>the interim.

>Am I right so far?

That's my understanding.

>Now then, my impression is that UniMaint uses 2a above and CheckIni uses
>2b above. Is this correct?

No, I think they both use a. along with the documented WPS interfaces.
However, the problem is that neither can notify the the WPS of the changes
thay have made, in all cases. For performance reasons, the WPS caches a
lot of data in memory. The regressions occur when the WPS has something
cached and unimaint/checkini fixes the same item in the .INI and then the
WPS decides to flush its cache to the .INI's.

Steven

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