[BRLTTY] Filter keyboard keypresses on Linux

[Samuel Thibault]

Mario Lang, le Tue 15 Jan 2008 03:04:49 +0100, a écrit :
> > Does anyone know what happens if the same event device is opened more than 
> > once, which could happen, for example, if more than one brltty is started?
> 
> I *think* if the application does not "grab" the keyboard,
> other apps can still open the device.

>From the kernel source, it looks like grabbing is exclusive, doesn't
prevent other apps to open the device, but prevents them from getting
any event from that device.

Samuel