Disabling Quit On Telnet

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006, Scott Walker wrote:
>Was wondering how you guys handle this situation:
>
>Once a posting procedure has started I disable the break key with a
>"break off" in processing.  That works fine if the user tries to press
><Del> in SCO Unix or <Ctrl><C> in Linux.
>
>But what if he takes his mouse and clicks on the "X" in the upper right
>hand corner of the Anziolite screen?  Boom he's out, the posting aborts,
>and I've got a mess...

On *nix boxes, you can put an appropriate ``trap'' statement in the wrapper
that start's FilePro.  This should do the trick someplace in the script
before it fires off the real FilePro binary.

trap '' 1 2 3 15

I first ran into this with RMCOBOL on Tandy Model 16s where breaking out of
the program leaving the ISAM files in a mess.

That might not take care of the total nuking of a session when Windows
crashes.  I doubt that wrapping in ``nohup'' would help there.  In a
database with transaction rollback, one could probably handle this by
catching the signal, and rolling back all transactions before exiting.

Bill
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