[Xcb] [RFC PATCH] New XCB socket handoff mechanism for Xlib/XCB and other libraries

[Vincent Torri]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008, Jamey Sharp wrote:

> Libraries like Xlib/XCB, some XCB language bindings, and potentially
> others have a common problem: they want to share the X connection with
> XCB. This requires coordination of request sequence numbers. XCB
> currently has an Xlib-specific lock, and allows Xlib to block XCB from
> making requests. The attached patches to XCB replace that lock with a
> handoff mechanism, xcb_take_socket, allowing external code to ask XCB
> for permission to take over the write side of the socket and send raw
> data with xcb_writev. The caller of xcb_take_socket must supply a
> callback which XCB can call when it wants the write side of the socket
> back to make a request. This callback synchronizes with the external
> socket owner, flushes any output queues if appropriate, and then returns
> the sequence number of the last request sent over the socket.

it's too complicated for me, so i just have a small (and maybe stupid) 
question: will it break abi ?

Vincent