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    Pass a dedicated fd to each keyboard for the xkb keymap · 152d7250
    Vlad Zahorodnii authored
    Summary:
    To better isolate the clients from each other eachh KeyboardInterface
    creates it's own dedicated temporary file and sends the fd for this
    temporary file to the client. This means the memory for the keymap is no
    longer shared between all clients, every client has an own copy.
    
    To support this the existing API to set the keymap is deprecated and
    replaced by a new method setKeymapData which takes the content of the
    keymap as a byte array. The now deprecated method which takes a file
    descriptor is changed to use the new setKeymapData method. For that it
    reads the content of the file.
    
    The implementation in KeyboardInterface to create the file descriptor is
    based on the implementation of KWin. As I implemented the change in KWin
    (see 3b4c508e) it is not a problem from
    GPL vs LGPL perspective.
    
    The change includes test cases to verify that the content of the keymap
    is properly passed to the client and that the memory is no longer shared.
    
    BUG: 381674
    
    Reviewers: #kwin, #frameworks, davidedmundson, zzag
    
    Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
    
    Subscribers: plasma-devel, kde-frameworks-devel
    
    Tags: #frameworks
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D14910
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