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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.

Which apps?  And aren't they already broken by the #defines to change
MAXCLIENTS at compile time (or even worse, those of us who have built
servers in the past where MAXCLIENTS was runtime configurable)?

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