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Date:      Thu, 06 Jan 2000 11:37:39 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
Cc:        lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reading kbd scancodes from userland
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000106113739.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200001052345.PAA26271@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>

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On 05-Jan-00 Jim Shankland wrote:
>    (void) tcsetattr(fd, 0, &old_t);
>    if (ioctl(fd, KDSKBMODE, oldmode) < 0) {
>      (void) fprintf(stderr,
>                     "Danger, Will Robinson! Can't restore keyboard:
>  %s\n",

You know I *really* wish there was a way to make sure that when your
app closed the keyboard was unborked again..

Its really annoying having to find another machine when your app
coredumps so you can restore the keyboard to sanity :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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