Hi! I'm debugging strange behaviour on /dev/input/eventX ... it seems that select is not behaving level-triggered as it apparently should. I can reproduce it when hitting windows & alt keys. Now, I really should rewrite it into C, first, but perhaps someone has an idea? Pavel #!/usr/bin/python # Thanks to mechomaniac.com # GPLv2 # Copyright 2011 Pavel Machek import struct import time import select import os import random # # format of the event structure (int, int, short, short, int) inputEventFormat = 'iihhi' inputEventSize = 16 file = open("/dev/input/event5", "rb") # standard binary file input while 1: ( i, o, e ) = select.select( [file], [], [], 0.5 ) if i == []: print "timeout event" continue event = file.read(inputEventSize) time.sleep(1) (time1, time2, type, code, value) = struct.unpack(inputEventFormat, event) print "type ", type, " code ", code, " value ", value file.close() -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html