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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, snoopyzwe wrote:

> I want to implement a module, whose main task is to check the system
> idle time(no keyboard and mouse input) and suspend the whole system(when
> the idle time is long enough). But there comes the problem, how to
> calculate the system idle time. How can I get the time user has no
> operation.
> thanks
> snoopyzwe
>

The the source-code of `top` and review it. Make a user-mode
daemon to watch the system...


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.