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From: Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>
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Subject: [MiNT] Half-ugly fullscreen applications, how to recover when things go bump
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:56:50 +0200
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Hi,

I'm working on a framebuffer library, which does some ugly stuff to be  
able to run stuff in fullscreen, and to be able to read multiple keys  
at once.
At the moment I can't see any clean way to do that stuff,  
unfortunately. The biggest problem with this is that when something  
goes wrong, i.e. if the app crashes, I need to restore the desktop  
screen and keyboard/mouse/joystick vectors.

Is there a nice way to do this? Maybe it's obvious and fundamental  
unix knowledge, but let's say I get a bus error, is there a way to  
implement some kind of "panic" recovery?

best regards

-- PeP