[PD-dev] freeing a file descriptor in linuxevent

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Upon a brief examination, nothing sticks out.  I'll be working on this  
tomorrow, I'll let you know if I find anything.  Are you sure that it  
only happens with Pd?  Could it be happening with this device in other  
programs?  Sounds like a cool device, what do you think of it so far?

.hc

On Saturday, Feb 14, 2004, at 08:56 America/New_York, Frank Barknecht  
wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I have a problem with fully freeing the linuxevent object. If I open
> an event device file, say /dev/input/event3 with linuxevent and then
> do not close the device correctly by either deleting the linuxevent
> object, or sending it a "close" message, I cannot claim the device
> again later.
>
> This happens, if I close Pd with the Quit message or the window
> manager buttons. The only way to reclaim a device - a Contour
> ShuttleXpress - I found is by unplugging it, removing various kernel
> modules (hid, evdev) with rmmod and then plugging the device back in.
>
> I suppose, that the linuxevent's linuxevent_free method isn't called,
> when Pd is closed. Could this be? Of course I can work around all this
> by properly closing the device descriptor by hand, but this won't
> help for example, when Pd crashed.
>
> ciao
> --  
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
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