[Xcb] How can I increase the maximum request length?

[Bart Massey]

Doesn't need XCB API changes per se, I think, just to the image library.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 13:39 Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:

> paul ewing <pcewing at outlook.com> writes:
>
> > It's not just the xcb_image_put request that needs to be split up.
> Separate
> > images have to be created via multiple calls to xcb_image_create and a
> call to
> > xcb_image_put has to be made for each image.
>
> Yeah, some API changes to make it easy to put sub-images would be
> useful.
>
> > I suppose that xcb_image_put could detect if the image is too large and
> split
> > the image up internally but then you have the problem Bart mentioned
> where
> > there are multiple cookies to track each request and it's unclear what to
> > return.
>
> With xcb API changes to allow sub-image puts, creating a util function
> to put the whole image and split it up would be pretty easy.
>
> --
> -keith
>
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