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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jadahl@gmail.com" title="Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jonas Ådahl</span></a>
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from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jadahl@gmail.com" title="Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Jonas Ådahl</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Pekka Paalanen from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=91799#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> I am scared to even think of what spawning a thread in libwayland-server
> would cause.
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> An alternate proposal to this problem would be to deprecate the whole server
> event loop implementation in Wayland. It obviously has never worked on BSDs,
> so BSDs could start by compiling a version of libwayland-server which does
> not have that API (or plug it with stubs).
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> But this is major design change. We would need to plan how to gracefully
> deprecate the event loop API everywhere, and port all users to third party
> event loop libraries. Therefore it requires a significant buy-in from the
> community.
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> I recall Jasper saying that Gnome's compositor does not use the event loop
> stuff of libwayland-server, because they already have their own. I wonder
> what others do.</span >
In mutter we do use the event loop. We just add the fd to our event loop and
dispatch on input on that fd, more or less.</pre>
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