Finishing the network protocol

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Andreas Hartmetz <ahartmetz at gmail.com> schrieb:

> - Have three ID ranges:
>    a) for global objects
>    b) for client-specific objects created by the server (do they exist?)
>    c) for client-specific objects created by the client
d) reserved for future use.

Makes to extra bits.

BTW: should there be any (client visible) global objects at all ?

> - A scheme to recycle object IDs. When a new ID is needed, pick a free
>   one at random. This introduces a problem:
>   Suppose the client destroys object A with ID n, then by chance
>   immediately reuses ID n for object B. 

Simple: let the other side first acknowledge the destruction before
reusing an OID.

> - Specify how parent-child relationships work, e.g. (bad example, the
>   answer is probably no here) is a surface automatically destroyed when
>   its screen goes away? By whom?

What exactly should "goes away" mean here ?
Something like switching GPUs (eg. for power saving) ?


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