Re: input: evdev.c EVIOCGRAB semantics question

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sat Aug 12 2006 - 20:26:18 EST


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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