On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 14:43, Ole-Egil Hvitmyren wrote: > > Seriously, gpm just gives up control when I go to tty7 (X), and X > releases control of it when I go someplace else. It might very well be > that /dev/psaux can only be read by one process, but I have never had a > problem with that, because the processes that read it ALWAYS work around > it... So my point isn't that /dev/psaux isn't braindead, but that _that > has never been a problem_ ;-)
If everything using /dev/psaux has been fixed, that's great, but it definitely used to be a problem. (Also note that with 2.6 kernels, /dev/psaux is deprecated and merely an alias for /dev/input/mice) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
