Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965431AbXAWTDf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:03:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965436AbXAWTDf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:03:35 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:43374 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965431AbXAWTDf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:03:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:02:57 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Alessandro Di Marco , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@suse.cz Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 Message-ID: <20070123190257.GF18662@elf.ucw.cz> References: <877ivkrv5s.fsf@gmx.it> <20070119101103.GA5730@ucw.cz> <877ivfi60i.fsf@gmx.it> <20070123094114.GE6033@ucw.cz> <87wt3dhlte.fsf@gmx.it> <20070123163442.GA18662@elf.ucw.cz> <20070123190107.GB9219@inferi.kami.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070123190107.GB9219@inferi.kami.home> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1062 Lines: 25 On Tue 2007-01-23 20:01:07, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:34:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > [...] > > > Do you believe it could be a user-space daemon or what? > > > > Yes, what prevents userspace daemon watching /dev/input/event* to > > provide this functionality? > > hmmm... EVIOCGRAB for example? the synaptics Xorg driver is using > it, maybe others too? > I don't want to start a new discussion about it, just provide an answer > to your question :) I do not know how EVIOCGRAB works, I believe event* will _still_ see the events. Anyway, if not, I guess EVIOCGRAB can be fixed/removed/ we can add EVIOCGIVEMEALLTHEDATAREALLYIWANTIT. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/