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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE2 and Linux 2.4
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       2001-02-07 17:23:22
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A dir watcher with QFileInfo exists() and refresh() together with
a QTimer? 

or setitimer and an ifstream?

or maybe there is something in /proc which even tells you that 
a pilot thing has connected:)

Leon

Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > Does KDE2 still have problems running with Linux 2.4?  According to
> > this article, this seems to be the case:
> 
> Well, this isn't a KDE2-as-a-whole problem but my personal corner of KDE2
> - KPilot - has serious issues with kernel 2.4. And since you've brought it
> up I'll describe my problem here and solicit solutions from kde-devel as a
> whole:
> 
> Kernel 2.4 makes USB device nodes (in /dev/udb/ I think) on-the-fly. One
> part of KPilot is a daemon process that sits and waits for input on a
> device. Up til now you could set it to wait on /dev/usb0 and all would be
> fine. Except under kernel 2.4, there *is* no /dev/usb/0 until the input is
> there, so KPilot can't possibly wait on /dev/usb/0 before it exists.
> 
> Are there any ideas about what to do about this? [I suppose some kind of
> Dir-Watcher might work...]
> 
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