Undermining XGrabKeyboard

[Peter Hutterer]

pcpa at mandriva.com.br wrote:
>> Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>>>   I wrote a patch for the Mandriva X Server that handles keyboard
>>> events using sigio, like mouse events,
>> unless you wrote a lot more code than this, this will re-create the 
>> problem that X mallocs and frees memory in the signal handler.

Try a powerpc, thats how I noticed it.

>   Anyway, it is also using the patch from Matthieu Herrb to preallocate
> input related memory, so it should not be calling malloc/free from the
> "enqueue" routines.
> 

the keyboard may have to switch keymaps and this allocates memory. with 
matthieu's patch mouse stuff is fine, but kbd isn't yet.

Cheers,
   Peter