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From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: moused on notebooks...
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > right now I'm running moused on my notebook w/ a ps/2 mouse...  if I ever
> > have the mouse detacted when the notebook is up and running I will loose
> > the mouse until I restart moused...  
> > 
> > would anybody object to possibly added a signal handler to moused for
> > SIGHUP to force it to reopen the mouse device?  comments?
> 
> In the situation you describe, the SIGHUP would arive when you
> unplugged the mouse, not when you plugged it in.  You want it to
> be opened *after* you plug it in.

that's if your using a normal serial mouse... but I'm using a ps/2
mouse... so there isn't a "disconnect" signal... as far as I know...  of
course I guess I should make the SIGHUP patch affect bus and ps/2 mice
only then...

currently as it stands moused dies when it recieves a SIGHUP.. :)

also...  does the moused make the mouse device the controling terminal?
if it doesn't then it won't recieve the SIGHUP when it gets unplugged...

thanks for your comments... ttyl..

John-Mark

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