On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:52, Zephaniah E\. Hull wrote: > > Something comes to mind, but to be blunt it is still a hack, and it > > could easily result in a system with no keyboard at all if X crashes. > > > > Throw in a fake event, that tells the keyboard driver to ignore > > everything from that input device until it receives the command again > > with a different value. > > > > I don't really like it, but at the same time I don't see anything overly > > better. > I don't think that anything you do on the event interface should affect the > keyboard interface. > > Why not a special "disable output' ioctl on the keyboard interface?
Possibly quite feasible, however I don't know the details of the
keyboard interface, but I suppose if nobody else cares to do this,
then I suppose I will look into it.
Zephaniah E. Hull.
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> Brad
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}>No. I just point out to troublemakers that I have an English degree,
}>which means that I am allowed to make changes to the English language.
}>(What _else_ could it possibly be for?)
}Wow; in that case, my physics degree is *WAY* more useful than I
}had thought.
This just proves how useless a computer science degree is: there is hardly
any useful science involved at all. I want my computer black magic degree!
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