Why?
>
> > keyboard anymore, and no mouse either because X overrides GPM
> > (GPM has a feature for rebooting the system in case of keyboard
> > lock, but if GPM is disabled by X, it's worthless, and anyway,
> > the mouse is not the responsibility of the kernel).
>
> No, the kernel should have better mouse support. SysV systems have
> an event queue that includes both mouse and keyboard. If that is
> not offered, then both mouse and keyboard need to supply high-resolution
> timestamps so that user-space can be sure of event order. Without
> the combined queue and/or timestamps, keystrokes can go to the wrong
> window and a shift-click might be seen as shift followed by click.
> I think GGI's EvStack provides both. Real-time scheduling can hide the
> problem most of the time, but it doesn't completely eliminate the race.
>
Timestamps are a good idea anyway.
-hpa
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