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From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XQueryTree and BadWindow errors
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Date: 16 Nov 89 23:49:09 GMT
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    I believe the specification is correct
    as written, and very clear on this point, and is precisely what I
    intended.

I might be willing to take your word on intent, but *very* clear? Section 4.1
says "Because they are most frequently used by window managers, these functions
all return a status to indicate whether the window still exists."  Yet two of
the functions in this section, XGetWindowAttributes and XQueryPointer,
explicitly state that they generate errors, and the other two, XQueryTree and
XGetGeometry, do not.  And one of the functions, XQueryPointer, returns Bool,
not Status, and the bool has nothing to do with status.  This looks a lot more
like inconsistency than "very clear".