I have a program that is listening to a certain event file handle. Is there a file I can read to get details about the specific event’s device that I am listening to?
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I have a program that is listening to a certain event file handle. Is there a file I can read to get details about the specific event’s device that I am listening to?
Assuming that (a) you’re on Linux and (b) you have
sysfsmounted (typically on/sys), you can look at/sys/class/input/eventX. This will be a symlink into the device tree; this should provide you some device details. For example:For USB devices, you could then probably mount a
usbfsfilesystem and check out thedevicesfile for more information.