XShmAttachFd support?

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat Jan 14 03:19:10 UTC 2017


John Cox <jc at kynesim.co.uk> writes:

> Hi
>
> I'd like to use posix shared memory with the XShm extensions (rather
> than SysV).  There appears to be support in the server and xproto for
> this (X_ShmAttachFd) but no support in libXext.  Am I missing something
> and/or is there any way I can make use of this feature?

We've only ever exposed this API through the alternate xcb interface,
xcb_shm_attach_fd and xcb_shm_attach_fd_checked. You can use these in an
application which is already using Xlib fairly easily.

-- 
-keith
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