On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Lee Brown wrote:
> What if I wrote a server that listens to gii devices and forwards
> (via a socket)the events to any client wishing to receive them..
>
> Is this useful?
Could be. I was going to do something like that to get WINE to read
GGI devices, due to the way it is coded, but then various new
editions of various things fixed what I needed to be fixed.
It would be greatly useful in that it would allow you to centrally
(per user) administer preferences like device sensitivity and response
curves.
> Is is not done?
Not really.
> Is it not done because it's useless?
No, but there is something to be said about the input events coming
directly from kernel space, because with a userspace event listener, you are
adding some latency to the process of getting the events to the
application, due to the way the scheduler works. Unfortunately, what needs
to be done with input device preferences would be bloat if it was put
in the kernel. Perhaps an RT task is the way to go?
--
Brian
