Please merge procfs... :-)

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:42:21PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
 > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 19:30 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
 > > For some sensors we can use something like acpid to get notified when we
 > > need to refresh a value. For instance, AC adapter sends an ACPI event when
 > > state changes.
 > I don't want a dependency on acpid, we should just read things off
 > the /proc/acpi/event socket.

If you do that, you'll need to rewrite acpid to use HAL, or do everything
that acpid does in haldaemon.
As others mentioned, /proc/acpi/event can only be opened exclusively.

		Dave

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