Re: Rebooting the Machine, part 2

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 16:45

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"James A Beggs" <jbeggs@aqha.org> wrote:

>I'm trying to reboot the machine, where it powers down and back up,
>completely from scratch.
>
>I've been using ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT | EXWFORCE, 0);
>
>However, I noticed that, at least on my laptop, this did nothing. So, I

See Hugo's reply.

>rewrote it as:
>if (!ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT | EXWFORCE, 0))
>    ExitWindowsEx(EWX_REBOOT & EWXFORCE, 0);
>
>The & worked, sort of, on my laptop. It logged me out of windows. And
>exiting windows is fine, I guess, but I actually need a full reboot. How
>would I do that instead?

Well, yeah,  reboot(2) & force(4) == logoff(0)

The docs also say EWX_FORCE is a nasty thing to do.
The header shows an EWX_FORCEIFHUNG that sounds nicer.

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