From: Damian Yerrick <DONT DOT YOU DOT DAREd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comSEND DOT SPAM>
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Subject: Re: Bash crashes windows 98
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 10:16:56 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Chris Calvey wrote:
>
>> on hitting ctrl+alt+delete, windows informs me that it is waiting
>> for a close window operation to complete, which never does.
>
>What happens if you tell Windows to "End Task"?  Does the whole
>machine die, or only the offending DOS box?

Windows is waiting for the "close window" dialog box.  One part of the
OS has apparently taken out a lock on window creation when the C-M-del
code wants to put up the "Kill..." dialog, and the task manager is
waiting for that lock to be removed.  So it BSOD's out to character-
cell mode and asks if you want to wait for the lock to go away (press
Enter) or restart the computer (C-M-del again).

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