INT 2F - MS Windows - "DOSMGR" VIRTUAL DEVICE API AX = 1607h BX = 0015h (VxD identifier of "DOSMGR") CX = function 0000h query instance processing DX = 0000h Return: CX = state 0000h not instanced other instanced (DOS 5+ kernel returns 0001h) DX = segment of DOS drivers or 0000h for default of 0070h ES:BX -> patch table (see below) 0001h set patches in DOS DX = bit mask of patch requests bit 0 enable critical sections bit 1 NOP setting/checking user ID bit 2 turn INT 21/AH=3Fh on STDIN into polling loop bit 3 trap stack fault in "SYSINIT" to WIN386 bit 4 BIOS patch to trap "Insert disk X:" to WIN386 Return: AX = B97Ch BX = bit mask of patches applied DX = A2ABh 0002h remove patches in DOS (ignored by DOS 5.0 kernel) DX = bit mask of patch requests (see function 0001h) 0003h get size of DOS data structures DX = bit mask of request (only one bit can be set) bit 0: Current Directory Structure size Return: if supported request: AX = B97Ch CX = size in bytes of requested structure DX = A2ABh else: all registers preserved 0004h determine instanced data structures Return: AX = B97Ch if supported DX = A2ABh if supported (DOS 5+ kernel returns 0000h) BX = bit mask of instanced items bit 0: CDS bit 1: SFT bit 2: device list bit 3: DOS swappable data area 0005h get device driver size ES = segment of device driver Return: DX:AX = 0000h:0000h on error (not dev. driver segment) DX:AX = A2ABh:B97Ch if successful BX:CX = size of device driver in bytes Notes: DOSMGR (DOS Manager) will check whether the OEM DOS/BIOS data has been instanced via this API and will not perform its own default instancing of the normal DOS/BIOS data if so; if this API is not supported, DOSMGR will also try to access instancing data through INT 2F/AX=1603h these functions are supported by the DOS 5+ kernel; DOSMGR contains tables of instancing information for earlier versions of DOS see Geoff Chappell's book _DOS_Internals_ for additional discussions of DOSMGR's behavior and instancing in general SeeAlso: AX=1603h,AX=1605h,AX=1607h/BX=000Ch,AX=1607h/BX=0014h,AX=1684h Format of patch table: Offset Size Description 00h 2 BYTEs DOS version (major, minor) 02h WORD offset in DOS data segment of "SAVEDS" 04h WORD offset in DOS data segment of "SAVEBX" 06h WORD offset in DOS data segment of InDOS flag 08h WORD offset in DOS data segment of User ID word 0Ah WORD offset in DOS data segment of "CritPatch" table to enable critical section calls (see INT 2A/AH=80h) 0Ch WORD (DOS 5+ only) offset in DOS data segment of "UMB_HEAD", containing segment of last MCB in conventional memory .