[Spice-devel] Further thoughts on the write polling in the xf86_spice_xql driver

Jeremy White jwhite at codeweavers.com
Mon Jun 4 06:42:17 PDT 2012


>> However, while the X server main loop has a facility that lets us add fds to it's
>> select read mask, it has no such facility to let us add fds to it's *write* select mask.
> 
> Right. This is the problem. I think the right solution is to patch the X
> server.

Okay; I unimaginatively decided that would be Hard.  Wouldn't that break
the ABI, and therefore be rejected unilaterally?  I'm willing to try to
craft a patch and submit it; but maybe I just need encouragement <grin>.

Cheers,

Jeremy


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