XShmAttachFd support?

John Cox jc at kynesim.co.uk
Mon Jan 16 19:39:09 UTC 2017


Hi

>> 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.

Thanks - I'll use that then.

JC


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