[Xcb] zeroing out

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Keith Packard wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:49 -0800, Barton C Massey wrote:
> 
> > Anyone remember offhand whether null bytes are allowed in
> > the count/chars strings returned by X requests?  Anyone know
> > whether there must be a space in the reply for a trailing
> > null byte?  If either of these things are wrong, then XCB
> > isn't reasonably going to be able to return C strings...
> 
> Strings in X replies are not nul terminated. Xlib allocates an extra
> byte for 8-bit properties and stuffs a nul in there.
> 
> -keith
> 
> 

Is there any reason we would not need to return a NULL terminated string?  
It seems like that is something we should provide to prevent a lot of 
duplicated code client side.

Jeremy