Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] patch: add delay=<msecs> suboption to -display curses

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Gerd Hoffmann on 2014/05/27 at 07:44 +0200]

>What exactly is the problem?

At the user level, the keyboard appears to be dead. An inspection of the 
udnerlying code reveals that the application itsllf is querying the MS-DOS 
keyboard input buffer in a bad way. Those apps can't be fixed, though, because 
the bad code is in a library which is statically linked into every app using 
it, which means lots of apps, many of which, as is always the case, may not 
even have source code anymore.

Another thing to consider is that this, really, is a general problem. Most 
keyboard input code, especially in older days, would've nly ever been tested at 
typing speed. It should be expected, therefore, that there might be problems in 
some of it when input events arrive faster - in this case, "infinitely" fater. 
The solution I'm proposing, therefore, tackles it in a general way, and does 
nothing more than allow the user to request that, regardless of what the UI 
needs to do underneath, the keyboard events still arrive at the speed of a 
typist.

Did you see my other question abot either adding -kbddelay [duration=]msecs or 
merging it into -k (-k [language=]language[,delay=msecs]? Which would be the 
better approach?

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