[Xcb] [EXTERNAL] - Details on using xcb_send_request()?
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Thu Feb 4 16:13:05 UTC 2021
On 2/4/21 7:50 AM, Junk Mail wrote:
> - all
> I am going to assume that the part where you say "every X11 request must be a
> multiple of 4 bytes" is specific to the implementation, the protocol says:
>>Every request consists of four bytes of a header (containing the major opcode,
> the length field, and a data byte) followed by zero or more additional bytes of
> data.
> So every request is four bytes for header + data, if it has to be multiple of 4,
> then the text in the protocol should be updated to reflect this.
https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#request_format
already says the length of a request is defined in "units of four bytes".
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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