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Article #4292Re: cntl-alt-del trap
From: Ralf Brown
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 03:01
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 1991 03:01
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In article <LEVERICW.91Jan17230451@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu> levericw@cheetah.ece.clarkson.edu (Walden Leverich) writes:
}frank> Does anyone know of a way to disable (trap) cntl-alt-del within
}frank> a C application.
}
}Try trapping the keyboard interrupt (INT09) and watching for the
}ctrl-alt-del combination. I believe ctrl-alt-del has an interrupt of
}its own you could wath for
Unfortunately, it doesn't. They keyboard BIOS does a jump directly to the
BIOS entry point when you press Ctrl-Alt-Del. The only way to disable it
is (as you said) to hook INT 09 and filter out the Del scancode if Ctrl
and Alt are already pressed.
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