XC-MISC / X-Resource / core protocol extension proposal

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 10:17 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:

> I can't think of anything obvious this would break.  There's a minor
> concern about what to do about the server's XID space, but (assuming
> xrestop isn't lying to me) the server is only holding 67 or so, so
> probably one block of whatever size is more than sufficient.  Also, yes,
> this would be a fairly invasive change to the server, and possibly to
> Xlib, but when has that ever stopped anyone.

There are a bunch of random debug-ish apps that depend on a stable mask
to pull a client ID out of a resource ID.

One (easier?) alternative would be to take back the top three bits of
the integer to give us both more clients and more resources?

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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