I just tested it, it works great. On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 23:34 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:52, Jeremy Roberson wrote: > > Can you give me example syntax for using EVIOCGRAB ioctl or point me to > > the documentation? This may very well solve my problem. I wasn't aware > > that it could be issued after the device node had already been created. > > > > You basically do: > > ret = ioctl(fd, EVIOCGRAB, 1); > > to "grab" device for exclusive access and > > ret = ioctl(fd, EVIOCGRAB, 0); > > to release it after you are done with it. fd is a file descriptor you get > when you open /dev/input/eventX. > -- Jeremy Roberson Software Engineer GTCO CalComp
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