and if your message wasn't enough to convince us that NT is a joke of
an OS, here's a snippet from http://www.ntinternals.com./tips.htm :
| Never-ending Quantum?
|
| In NT, as with most time-sharing operating systems, threads run in turns
| called quantums. Normally, a thread executes until its quantum runs out.
| The next time it is scheduled it starts with a full quantum. However, in
| NT a thread also gets its quantum refreshed every time its thread or
| process priority is set. This means that a thread can reset its quantum
| by calling SetThreadPriority (without changing its priority) before its
| turn runs out. If it continues to do this it will effectively have an
| infinite quantum. Why does NT do this? Its not clear, but it appears to
| be a bug.
can we say easy DoS?
-- Roger Espel Llima espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr, espel@unix.bigots.org http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html