On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 16:48 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:35 -0500, Martin Dubuc wrote: > > Addition of a working version of rfkill in Fedora 12 has been really > > welcomed. In my application, I would like to monitor the RF kill > > switch to detect when user enables/disables Wi-Fi on the system. I > > thought I could use the rfkill executable to do this, using "rfkill > > event", piping the output using popen in my process. However, rfkill > > outputs the events on standard output, but does not flush every time > > it reports an event. When I perform fgets to get the events, I get > > nothing. I am wondering if it would be possible to add a fflush on > > stdout when events are reported on stdout inside rfkill. > > You're probably better off monitoring /dev/rfkill yourself directly (for > now[1]), there's example code in gnome-bluetooth, look at > lib/bluetooth-killswitch.c. > > You'd basically just need to change the type of killswitch you're > monitoring. > > Cheers > > [1]: We'd probably want a D-Busified rfkilld in the future. johannes and marcel keep talking about this but haven't gotten there yet. Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
