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> :  For a REAL consistent solution IMHO some kernel support is needed as it 
> : is only the kernel that knows the current, global, keyboard state.
>
> One might introduce another ioctl that returns the key_down array.
> But I don't like this proliferation of ioctls. And I think svgalib
> can survive just as well as X can without it.

Forget the ioctls, they are a pain to use. It would be better to
be able to mmap the keyboard. Maybe even be able to request that
some signal be sent whenever a change occurs, but I suppose select
would do. (but getting SIGUSR1 would be very nice)


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