Re: In DOS you can trap interrupts, but in windows?

jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Kenneth Brody wrote:
jacob navia wrote:
Flash Gordon wrote:
jacob navia wrote:
Nawabzada wrote:
[...]

And this, my dear friends, is precisely why OS-specific questions
belong in OS-specific newsgroups and not clc.

QED.


Of course when in other threads right now the linux kernel is discussed
you will never complain, like the other regulars.

Double standards, because as everyone knows, windows programmers are
just slaves of Microsoft isn't it?

OS specific threads will be banned if that OS is Microsoft Windows.

For instance the thread

"Binding raw devices in Linux Kernel 2.6" (July 6-7th)

was never interrupted by the regulars.

That thread was (inappropriately) cross-posted to comp.os.linux.misc,
comp.lang.c, and alt.comp.linux. There were 7 articles in the
thread; all of them appear to have been posted from the Linux groups.
It appears that the original poster's problem was solved. I or
someone else could have posted a reply suggesting that comp.lang.c
be dropped from the cross-post, but we didn't bother. We are not
police officers; we are under no obligation to complain about every
off-topic post.

It was inappropriate for comp.lang.c. Nobody did anything about it.
It happens.

This thread, on the other hand, was posted solely to comp.lang.c,
which is why I posted a followup suggesting that this was not the
appropriate place for it -- not just to keep irrelevencies out of
comp.lang.c but because the OP can get *better advice* elsewhere.
You seem to know Windows programming better than most clc posters,
certainly better than I do -- but do you seriously think that
the OP's question belongs in comp.lang.c rather than, say,
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32?

If you had a question about, say, trapping interrupts in Windows,
where would you ask it?

Maybe we should advise people with Windows questions to just e-mail
them to you directly. Then you can show off your expertise without
the bother of other people disagreeing with you.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@xxxxxxx <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
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