Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, Can You tell me what signal Windows send at the user logoff? How may I trap it? Thanks in Advance.

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Re: Windows Signals"
by esskar (Deacon) on Mar 04, 2004 at 22:42 UTC
    When a logoff event occurs, the system notifies all processes in the system as follows:

    All windows of processes in the logon session being logged off receive the WM_QUERYENDSESSION (0x0011) and WM_ENDSESSION (0x0016) messages. All windows on the desktops of the window station being logged off receive these messages, even if the windows belong to processes running in another logon session.
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      For simple console apps, you can also call SetConsoleCtrlHandler() and the message sent for logoff is CTRL_LOGOFF_EVENT
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        Thanks. How may I implement that in perl? Jes
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