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From: "Arthur Bredrick" <sammy AT blast DOT net>
Subject: Re: Int-Hooking, DOS vs LINUX
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 03:23:20 GMT
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I don't know much about Unix, but I suppose then that the kernel does a
better job of hooking the keyboard interrupt in the first place, so it is
unnecessary to write your own handler?

Art

firewind wrote in article <60sbl0$foq AT dfw-ixnews8 DOT ix DOT netcom DOT com>...

>Arthur Bredrick <sammy AT blast DOT net> wrote:
>>  Why would it be good to forbid hooking interrupts when it is obviously
>> useful in many situations?
>
>Well, system security and stability! Personally, I'm rather thankful any
ol'
>user program can't hook my keyboard interrupt...
>
>In Linux there is simply no need to hook any interrupts from userspace. The
>kernel takes care of this all for you.
>
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