[PATCH 4/6] Add MIT-SHM AttachFd and CreateSegment requests

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Nov 6 10:13:08 PST 2013


Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:

> This doesn't bump the extension minor number.

Thanks.

> Also doesn't seem to have the QueryCaps thing, but I guess that doesn't
> exist at all yet.

I know it's the 'safe' thing to do, but it places an additional burden
on any application using the extension, and I cannot find a single
system which supports SysV shared memory and which does *not* support Fd
passing. Adding complexity for hypothetical operating systems doesn't
seem helpful to me.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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