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From: !smentzer AT pacbell DOT net (Steve Mentzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: 13 Sep 1999 20:55:27 GMT
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>
>For example, did you know you cannot catch SIGINT and SIGFPE on NT?  If 
>you do, your program crashes, and the DrWatson log file clearly shows 
>that it's an NT bug.


And you shouldn't be able to... The only thing that should be handling 
interrupts are kernel-mode device drivers, not user mode applications.



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