Windows media player apparently, having been used in a format emergency to play a DVD
instead of VLC player, apparently leaves something running that prevents my "turn monitor
off" program from finishing.
$ cat monitoroff.c
#include windows.h
main() {
sleep(1);
SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SYSCOMMAND, SC_MONITORPOWER, (LPARAM) 2);
exit(0);
}
It works but hangs instead of exiting.
(Cygwin under XP)
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