Re: select() on /dev/input/eventX not level-triggered?
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon May 23 2011 - 17:20:27 EST
On Mon 2011-05-23 13:49:10, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:06:22PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Mon 2011-05-23 11:13:12, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 01:50:51AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Difference was I'm not using non-blocking read().
>
> Does not matter.
>
> > It is unusual but
> > should work AFAICT. Just read one packet when select shows its ready;
> > if there's more than one, don't loop around read, but rely on select
> > returning immediately.
> >
> > I did verify it on strace, so it should not be python artefact.
>
> It is artefact of your program, you buffering your input. Use:
>
> file = open("/dev/input/event3", "rb", 0)
Oops, yes, you are right, that solves it. Thanks... and sorry for the
noise.
Pavel
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