[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 91799] Usage of timerfd_create and signalfd prevent porting to non-linux platforms

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91799

--- Comment #2 from Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> ---
I am scared to even think of what spawning a thread in libwayland-server would
cause.

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).

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.

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.

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