On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Todd Vierling wrote:

: : So, if I changed psm.c to call gettimeofday() every time it got a byte of
: : data, check for long delays... Is this a bad idea?
:
: Well, not gettimeofday() per se, but getting the system tick clock as a
: rolling timestamp each time an event fires should be fine, IMHO....

Oh, also, this happens to be the method that some vendor's popular OS uses
to detect if a mouse was unplugged and replugged mid-event (so that it can
recover from a partially-read event, rather than reading all events offset
by N bytes -- which can cause pretty obvious problems).

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