| From: | Tim Hanson |
| Date: | 06 Jun 2000 at 23:45:41 |
| Subject: | Re: Waiting for disk activity to finish. |
Hi Francis
Francis G. Loch wrote this on 06-Jun-00 at 12:30:28
> I was kind of hoping for something a little bit more
> sophisticated than that.
>
> The problem is that I'm writing a reboot utility and I
> want make it wait for all disk activity to stop before
> it reboots the machine. As far as I'm aware this is
> 'impossible' to do (why?).
Probably a stupid idea but could you patch all dos.library functions that
access disks to not allow any more writes. This would at least avoid disk
invalidation.
Tim Hanson,
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