25 Sep
2006
25 Sep
'06
4:43 p.m.
Martin Peach wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
filesystem, they exist. I think its the same with Linux udev systems.
udev looks nice but I guess not every linux has it.
this is correct, but it is _the_ standard way of doing it since..hmm...kernel-2.6.8 i think. and prior to this there was devfs, which provided the same functionality (kind of).
i would really suggest to _not_ probe each device whether it is actually valid, but instead to rely on a properly set up /dev-tree (either manually or via udev or similar).
blind probing is likely to hang your system.
getting the available devices (and making them accessible) is really a task of the operating system and not of any application.
mfg.asdr IOhannes