On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +0100, James Simmons wrote:
> P.S
> KDGKBDTYPE. (Wow, I can't believe we still have this. It should die)
It is rather useless for determining keyboard proterties, yes.
On the other hand, quite a few utilities use it in code like
static int
is_a_console(int fd) {
char arg;
arg = 0;
return (ioctl(fd, KDGKBTYPE, &arg) == 0
&& ((arg == KB_101) || (arg == KB_84)));
}
Andries
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