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If we're looking at the /dev/input event devices, and we found at least one, then we don't want to look at the input joystick devices, since they're built on top of devices that we've already seen, so we're done.
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:34:50 +0000
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>#define TICK_INTERVAL    30

static Uint32 next_time;

Uint32 time_left(void)
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