Re: cntl-alt-del trap

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From: Doug Dougherty
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 1991 17:55

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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.

>frank> Frank

>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, but I am not sure about that, check ralf's
>interrupt listing.

My $.02 worth.  I always thought this was a dumb idea.  I mean all you
do is force the pern to find the reset switch when (N.B., not "if"!) the
machine locks up.  Worse, if they don't have a reset switch, they gotta
turn the damn thing off wait 15 seconds then power back up.  I always
thought this idea of trapping it was just programmer ego gone haywire
(Frankenstein mentality: If it can be done, it should be done...)

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