Mathias Dahl wrote: > Jeremy Moles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If you want to get crazy you can poll() on one of the evdev nodes >> (/dev/input/event*) and behave accordingly. I do this in a C application >> we use to do the exact same thing you're talking about. >> >> Each successful read from the device returns a 16-byte input_event >> struct (or similar, I'm going from memory here) that represents a key >> action. >> >> A google search returned this: >> >> http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/python/evdev/evdev.py > > Thanks for the pointer. That sounds crazy indeed! Maybe a bit too > crazy (low-level) for me... :) > > I tested the code very briefly: > > $ python evdev.py /dev/input/event0 > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "evdev.py", line 549, in ? > demo() > File "evdev.py", line 35, in demo > dev = Device(sys.argv[1]) > File "evdev.py", line 91, in __init__ > self.fd = os.open(filename, os.O_RDWR | os.O_NONBLOCK) > OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/input/event0' > > Loggin in (su:ing) as root solves that problem but I'm not sure I want > to require the user being root to be able to run my program. > > Anyway, thanks again for the hint! > > /Mathias
Could you make the script setuid? http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/~bishop/secprog/ -Don -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
