Re: libudev queue finished seqnums

[Sebastian Wiesner <lunaryorn@googlemail.com>]

2011/5/9 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>:
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 20:32, Sebastian Wiesner
> <lunaryorn@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I've got a question about libudev, concerning the function
>> "udev_queue_get_seqnum_is_finished()".  According to the
>> documentation, it returns a flag, indicating whether the given
>> sequence number has already been processed.  In my experiments
>> however, I found this function to always return 1, even for sequence
>> numbers which haven't ocurred yet.  The attached test program gives
>> the following output on my system:
>>
>> $ ./udev_queue_sequence_numbers
>> current seqnum: 1662
>> is previous seqnum finished? yes
>> is current seqnum finished? yes
>> is next seqnum finished? yes
>>
>> In my understanding, the last line should have said "no", because the
>> number immediately folllowing the current sequence number has
>> obviously not yet occurred.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> I guess, you need to read the function name as
> _seqnum_is_not_active(). It will return true for all event numbers
> currently not queued, including numbers larger than the currently
> handled one.

Ok, that'd make sense.

Thanks for your help