> I wanted to write a small program to lauch pilot-xfer whenever I press
> the hotsync button of my Treo.  The program kept trying to open()
> /dev/ttyU0 to see when Treo is ready.  It worked - but then pilot-xfer
> can no longer talk to the Treo (it seems the open() causes this).
> 
> How can I poll for the USB device to appear without doing an open()?
> I could parse the syslog output but that sounds even more kludgy...

If you just want to catch the 'device appeared/disappeared' event,
you can give kern/29485 and bin/29486 a try ;-). Works for PCI, PCMCIA,
USB -- supporting other buses is just a mechanical task I didn't yet
have time to do.

If, for some reason you don't want to, you can also use /dev/usb as
described in usb(4).

	Regards,
		-- Jachym Holecek