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From: johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: TURBO C: signal(SIGINT, ); multiple calls hangs itself
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In article <15795.2780a5d4@levels.sait.edu.au> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
[...Yep, stuff deleted...]
>If signal is called again in the handler function up to about 25 attempts
>to Break the program are successfully thwarted, but then       , that's right,
>nothing happens - a cold boot is required.


Are you saying that the system goes into La-La-Land after 25 total
break requests or if there are 25 levels of nesting break requests?

-----	John D. Mitchell
	johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU

P.S.  This thread should probably be moved to one of the PC groups
      or to e-mail.