device <-> name

Hi,

sometimes it is useful to have two processes:
one scanning for new usb devices, and one handling
one of those devices. to do that the first process
needs to pass a string to the second process
with information which device to open.

so what about some usb_device_to_name and
usb_name_to_device functions in libusb?

also some systems already have a notification
mechanism for new devices. it would nice to support
that syntax (on linux the /proc/bus/usb/xxxx/yyyy
pathname provided by hotplug).

what about other operating systems? are there facilities
that can notify you about new devices? freebsd has a usbd,
but I have no idea how it works. what about mac os x?

Regards, Andreas

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