Clemens Kolbitsch wrote: > Hi! > I'd like to detect if the client OS crashes... right now, only for > linux, but windows systems will become interesting for me as well in > the future... > > Is there an easy way of detecting if a BSOD or a kernel oops > happened?? Maybe that'd be possible by checking if the IP is inside a > certain range (I could find that location, I think... it does not have > to be working generically... for specific client OS would be > sufficient)!!
You could try checking whether the hlt instruction (on x86) was executed with interrupts disabled. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
