>I think it would be best if there was an option to choose
>whether Hijack should output or not regardles of notify=1.

Well, it turns out to be a moot point.

The player seems to use syslog() for its "notify" output, which is a separate kernel path from regular serial port output from an application. This means I can safely ALWAYS have hijack scanning for notifications and updating /proc with them.

But I don't really have an easy way to force the player to "turn them on".

So, to use this feature in the upcoming (fixed) v85 release (in a few hours), one will need to turn on notify in the config.ini file, using the normal [output] notify=1 stuff. But I will add an option to have Hijack supress the serial output of the notify stuff for those who don't want it actually spewing out.

Either way, no interference with "normal" serial port usage from other applications.

Cheers

-ml