From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Signaling dosemu application to kill itself from Linux Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:06:32 +0400 Message-ID: <42540908.4020405@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. tonyb@thekrnl.sysdev.org wrote: > The problem is that if dosemu is killed from Linux (crond), and > the dosemu console is in focus, the screen/kbd could cause Linux > to reboot No! It can't! If it does this, then it is a misconfiguration/ bug/outdated kernel/outdated dosemu/ dosemu with root privs/ or whatever, but not the supposed behaviour. With the sane setup such a things simply cannot happen. Please explain your problem in *much* more details. > because they were left in a bad state by a dos tsr. You can extend the dosemu startup script, or start it from another script, which, after dosemu exits, will restore the keyboard and the console state. But no, this have nothing to do with rebootes etc, so please explain your problem in details.