On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 20:32, Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've got a question about libudev, concerning the function > "udev_queue_get_seqnum_is_finished()". ÂAccording to the > documentation, it returns a flag, indicating whether the given > sequence number has already been processed. ÂIn my experiments > however, I found this function to always return 1, even for sequence > numbers which haven't ocurred yet. ÂThe attached test program gives > the following output on my system: > > $ ./udev_queue_sequence_numbers > current seqnum: 1662 > is previous seqnum finished? yes > is current seqnum finished? yes > is next seqnum finished? yes > > In my understanding, the last line should have said "no", because the > number immediately folllowing the current sequence number has > obviously not yet occurred. > > Am I missing something? I guess, you need to read the function name as _seqnum_is_not_active(). It will return true for all event numbers currently not queued, including numbers larger than the currently handled one. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
