IgnoreClient question

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Jun 28 17:24:48 PDT 2010


On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:18:31 +0200, Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de> wrote:

> What i assume but didn't check is that xlib doesn't have a problem  
> with getting replies out of sequence

The X protocol is purely sequential -- you can't execute requests out of
order (and queuing replies is part of the request execution). In
particular, no X library would ever deal with replies being returned out
of order; they count on the sequence number from the X server being monotonic.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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