Disabling Quit On Telnet

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:59:08AM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Jay Ashworth done said:
> > Note that this may well not actually be accurate in Windows XP -- XP is
> > known to be able to kill stuck processes when the user clicks the X
> > button; clearly, that widget doesn't belong to the app (as in earlier
> > versions of WIndows), but to the window manager.
> 
> It belongs to the wm in any version of Windows (or any X11 wm, for that
> matter), just to be clear.  I'm not sure if you had an implied, "...under
> XP," in there or not.  Doubting it, since you know your stuff, but others
> might have gotten confused.  I had a pause and double-take meself.

In my experience, that is not actually true on Win9x, though I'd have
to source that before depending on it.  But I've never see the "window
manager takes over from a locked up app" behavior on anything older
than 2000, and mayby not older than XP.

Cheers,
-- jra
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