Speakup in userspace

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Wed Jun 20 06:17:25 EDT 2007


Luke Yelavich, le Wed 20 Jun 2007 20:11:14 +1000, a écrit :
> > > > 2. What about console output? There is /dev/vcs[a]x, but polling that
> > > > a few times a second would be inefficient if the system was under load.
> > > 
> > > BrlTTY uses this,
> > 
> > For simulating keypresses, yes, but not for stealing key combinations.
> 
> I was referring to reading the console, which is what I think Tyler was 
> referring to.

Ooops, sorry, yes. brltty polls every 40ms, and it seems to be fine.
That said, I have in my todo-list a request for i-notification that
would make this fare more efficient.

Samuel




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