From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@aehallh.com>
Subject: Re: input: evdev.c EVIOCGRAB semantics question
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:00:47 -0400
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On Saturday 12 August 2006 12:52, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> I can dust off the masking patch sometime here if Dmitry thinks that
> he'd be willing to see a second method for this in addition to grabbing,
> adding support to xf86-input-evdev would be trivial, and the same could
> probably be said for the wacom driver that does grabbing at the moment.
> 

I would not mind if we get it working right ;) Do we need to turn off
"undesirable" handlers or do we want to limit output to one particular
handler? I'd prefer the former, if possible. Do we keep a counter or
set of counters so several processes can mask output, etc. Can we keep
event delivery somewhat fast? 

-- 
Dmitry
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