From: Sturle Sunde <sturle.sunde@usit.uio.no>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atime on devices
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:30:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <riqpt7z8qqt.fsf@maggie.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.gbo3vfu.1e429hc@ifi.uio.no> (Jan-Benedict Glaw's message of "Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:15:50 GMT")
Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
> On Wed, 2004-06-09 16:20:17 +0200, Sturle Sunde <sturle.sunde@usit.uio.no>
> wrote in message <riqhdtkke3i.fsf@maggie.uio.no>:
>> Some software use access times on device files to check if there is
>> mouse or keyboard activity on the console. This used to work in old
>> kernels, or perhaps it was old hardware, but not any more. Google
>> didn't find any other portable ways of checking for mouse or keyboard
>> activity without accessing the X11 display.
> open() /dev/input/evdev* and select() on them?
Requires root privileges, and you can't see how long the device was
idle before you did select.
--
Sturle
~~~~~
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2004-06-16 15:30 ` Sturle Sunde [this message]
2004-06-09 14:20 Sturle Sunde
2004-06-16 12:59 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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