bin/96970: moused no longer runs multiple instances simultaneously

[Jukka A. Ukkonen]

>Number:         96970
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       moused no longer runs multiple instances simultaneously
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon May 08 07:00:34 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jukka A. Ukkonen
>Release:        6.1-STABLE
>Organization:
individual user
>Environment:
FreeBSD mjolnir 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Sun May  7 18:07:50 EET DST 2006     root at mjolnir.:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Mjolnir  i386
>Description:
On some systems it would be beneficial to run multiple instances of moused
simultaneously. Assume there are multiple mouse like devices one wishes to
use alternating between them on the fly.
The current implementation does not allow this.

>How-To-Repeat:
Make sure you are running one instance of moused already and then launch e.g.

moused -r medium-high -t intellimouse -p /dev/cuad0

This will fail with a complaint like...

moused: moused already running, pid: 1001


>Fix:
Change moused to allow multiple simultaneous instances to run.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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