Bug 92720 - Use SIGIO for input events
Summary: Use SIGIO for input events
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Input/libinput (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2015-10-29 01:29 UTC by Peter Hutterer
Modified: 2016-10-26 05:38 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Hutterer 2015-10-29 01:29:30 UTC 
We don't use SIGIO right now because it does weird things to the epollfd that libinput exposes and in anyway, libinput is not designed to work inside a signal handler.
The drawback of this is that pointer movement stalls if the server is busy.

We need to find a suitable approach to run libinput in a second thread for dispatch() and pass the events through the SIGIO handler to the server.
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2016-10-26 05:38:20 UTC 
fixed in server 1.19 with the input thread

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