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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Catching ^C and ^Z
Message-ID: <22944:Sep502:57:0490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 90 02:57:04 GMT
References: <Sep.4.20.08.17.1990.1216@utopia.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Sep.4.20.08.17.1990.1216@utopia.rutgers.edu> deen@utopia.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) writes:
> 	I am trying to write a quick programme to lock a terminal(TTY)
> 	when I leave it.  Essentially I want to capture all the 
> 	interrupts that can be sent from the keyboard, such as
> 	SIG_INT,SIG_QUIT and so on.  The only reasonable thing I've 
> 	found that lets me do this is ioctl().

A public-domain ``lock'' appears in the pty package. It should answer
all your questions. Watch c.s.unix.

---Dan