Re: Hibernation and UNC paths - apps crash after restore

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From: Richard G. Harper (rgharper_at_email.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:37:31 -0400

Yes, that's normal. Most software these days uses overlays and other tricky
techniques so you don't have to load the whole kit-n-caboodle into memory at
once. If you run a program from a networked drive and the drive vanishes
... well, that does tend to make things interesting. 

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"Michal Borsuk" <MichalBorsuk@sitefinder.___RE'MO-VE__.pl.invalid> wrote in 
message news:cgq8lf$9k$1@opal.icpnet.pl...
> Richard G. Harper wrote:
>> It's most likely a problem with that computer - or more appropriately, 
>> its network card and/or drivers.  Hibernating a network connection severs 
>> the connection and upon resuming from hibernation the network is in an 
>> uncertain state, thus the crash.  A different network card and/or newer 
>> drivers might help.
>
> Possibly the problem lies somewhere else. A program opened from an UNC 
> path just crashed when I changed network card properties from "automatic 
> mode" to "half duplex". Upon that change windows reported that "D: is no 
> longer available", and the program opened from d: (a mapped UNC drive) had 
> an Access Violation.
>
> Is it normal that applications crash soon*) after losing read (or RW?) 
> access to the drve they were started from? Same crash happens when I start 
> an EXE from a partition in a file, and then the partition becames 
> unavailable.
>
> *) Actually, they crash as soon as start doing something around them, i.e. 
> winamp will play for a long time until I click "Stop", Excel just 
> dissapears when I move the mouse inside etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -- 
> Michal Borsuk
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>

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