[PATCH] os: Don't write the reply that overflows output buffer

[Keith Packard]

On Mon,  2 Aug 2010 11:29:55 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> wrote:
> 
> Here's the other approach for fixing damage vs flush client.  In writing the
> commit message, it certainly does feel like damage should just be fixed to
> not reply on that behaviour.  And writing the patch, I realize that the
> optimization is not just about saving a syscall, but also about avoiding
> having to realloc the output buffer to hold a request that's bigger than
> BUFSIZE (hello, XkbSendMap()).  The current code only does that when it
> fails to write the output buffer + extra request and the remaining bytes
> don't fit in a standard sized buffer.

This doesn't really fix the issue as we're potentially sending a stream
of events from the damage extension. We'd have to buffer all of them
until FlushAllOutput, I think.

It is a nice cleanup though; let's look at this post-1.9 separately.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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