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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1022 comp.os.linux.misc:10817 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!news.funet.fi!nntp.hut.fi!nntp!sja From: sja@snakemail.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: DOOM for X Date: 11 Mar 94 11:11:11 GMT Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 10 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <SJA.94Mar11131111@gamma.hut.fi> References: <2lkpg5$8hn@Tut.MsState.Edu> <hastyCMEw58.FMr@netcom.com> <1994Mar10.123047.15912@swan.pyr> <hastyCMGpA7.Gu5@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gamma.hut.fi In-reply-to: hasty@netcom.com's message of Thu, 10 Mar 1994 18:42:07 GMT >>>If you ask me X is very, very broken in this respect. >>Apparently not. >> > Apparently yes, any client-server model which forces you to always have > two processes to communicate with each other is a broken architecture. What amazing luck that X _doesn't_ force you to have two processes! (Though all Xlib's I have seen have been implemented that way. So far.) ++sja