From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262667AbTHUNnP (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:43:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262658AbTHUNnP (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 09:43:15 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:31499 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262667AbTHUMsh (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 08:48:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:48:35 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Jamie Lokier , Andries Brouwer , Neil Brown , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Input issues - key down with no key up Message-ID: <20030821144835.B3480@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <20030821000302.GC24970@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:40:33PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:40:33PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > But for programs which want to monitor a key and know its state > > continuously (this presently includes the software autorepeater, but > > it also includes games), none of the behaviours is right. > > X11 is another example of software that wants to know the state of keys > continuously. And that's not a piece of software to ignore easily. You are both inventing the situation that games, or X11, ask the kernel for a bitmap of pressed keys. But they don't. The mechanism doesn't even exist.