INT 2A CU - NETWORK - BEGIN DOS CRITICAL SECTION AH = 80h AL = critical section number (00h-0Fh) 01h DOS kernel, SHARE.EXE, DOSMGR apparently for maintaining the integrity of DOS/SHARE/NET data structures 02h DOS kernel, DOSMGR ensures that no multitasking occurs while DOS is calling an installable device driver 05h network redirector 06h DOS 4.x only IFSFUNC 08h ASSIGN.COM 0Ah MSCDEX 0Fh IBM PC LAN server (while intercepting INT 10/AH=06h,07h,0Eh) Notes: normally hooked to avoid interrupting a critical section, rather than called the handler should ensure that none of the critical sections are reentered, usually by suspending a task which attempts to reenter an active critical section the DOS kernel does not invoke critical sections 01h and 02h unless it is patched. DOS 3.1+ contains a zero-terminated list of words beginning at offset -11 from the Swappable Data Area (see INT 21/AX=5D06h); each word contains the offset within the DOS data segment of a byte which must be changed from C3h (RET) to 50h (POP AX) under DOS 3.x or from 00h to a nonzero value under DOS 4+ to enable use of critical sections. For DOS 4+, all words in this list point at the byte at offset 0D0Ch. SeeAlso: AH=81h,AH=82h,AX=8700h,INT 21/AX=5D06h,INT 21/AX=5D0Bh .