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From: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xscope - new features
Message-ID: <1838@otc.otca.oz>
Date: 3 Aug 90 02:47:08 GMT
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Reply-To: gregm@otc.otca.oz.au (Greg McFarlane)
Organization: OTC Development Unit, Australia
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The xscope program by James Peterson of MCC is a
very useful tool for monitoring the X protocol traffic between
X clients and an X server.

I have made a few changes to it so that it now reads standard
input for commands. So far I have implemented commands to allow the
user to: interactively set the debug and verbose-ness levels
(including a no-output level), set a monitor on a particular request,
and count the number of times each request type is called.

If anyone is interested in getting these changes please mail me.
However, I would rather the author contact me with his e-mail address
so I can send him the changes and have them incorporated.

Also, has anyone fixed xscope so that it handles blocked writes? At the
moment it just disconnects the client if a write would block. A better
technique would be to queue the output, waiting until the socket
is writable.


                    Greg McFarlane
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