> > from the perspective of dossrv(4), the exclusive use flag tells dossrv > > to try to keep the program contiguous on disk. moving it around is > > ok. > > I'm not a DOS FS specialist but I would be cautious about this because > there may be some binaries that expect not only a file to be a > contiguous series of blocks, but to start precisely _here_.
which binaries would those be? there are only two that i can think of pbs and dossrv. pbs doesn't require that 9load be at a specific offset, or the first entry. see /sys/src/boot/pc/pbs.s dossrv obviously doesn't care. - erik
