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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Catching ^C and ^Z
Message-ID: <988:Sep600:55:5790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 90 00:55:57 GMT
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In article <3367@awdprime.UUCP> dcm@toysrus.austin.ibm.com (Craig Miller) writes:
  [ about a ``lock'' program ]
> 	Why complicate things with ioctls?

You have to do something so that the user's keystrokes don't show up on
the screen; you may as well go all the way and basically turn off the
tty device driver. (To do this portably, use curses.)

---Dan