handling unknown messages (pt 2 of TODO)

[Bill Spitzak]

Are you talking about Wayland messages between the client and compositor?

I don't understand why you need to identify fd's in unknown message in 
order to skip them. Isn't there a total length of the message and the 
fd's are just embedded in this block of bytes?

I'm probably missing something here, sorry if this is a stupid question. 
It sounds like the client is required to do something with every fd 
found in a message, whether they understood it or not, but that has to 
be wrong!

Iskren Chernev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think I can do the second point in the TODO file:
> 
> The message format has to include information about number of fds
> in the message so we can skip a message correctly.  Or we should
> just give up on trying to recover from unknown messages.  We need
> to make sure you never get a message from an interface you don't
> know about (using per-client id space and subscribe) or include
> information on number of fds, so marshalling logic can skip.