[PATCH] xfree86: use a thread for the generation of input events
Matthew Garrett
mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Aug 24 14:13:08 PDT 2010
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:51:42PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I'm sceptical about this. For one thing OpenBSD has a userland
> threads library. This mostly works, but it has some nasty
> side-effects because the library switches all file descriptors in
> non-blocking mode. This is especially nasty if you use fork(2), which
> the X server does.
Yeah, I expect that Amiga Unix has problems as well. Thankfully, this is
the 21st century.
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