[ANNOUNCE] libevdev - a library to wrap the evdev kernel interface

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 01:06:24PM -0400, Todd Showalter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Peter Hutterer
> <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > For the last month or so I've been spending some time on a helper library
> > for evdev devices.
> 
>     Looks nice!
> 
>     I assume this doesn't abstract away the need to be root to access events.

correct, libevdev does nothing with the fd other than read from it and issue
a few ioctl calls. permission handling and opening the fd, etc. is all
handled by the caller.

Cheers,
   Peter