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From: keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard)
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Subject: Re: A tirade about inefficient software & systems
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Date: 1 Nov 90 01:23:34 GMT
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> The only serious application I can think of that does anything like this is
> xclipboard which appears to continuously poll the server to get the current
> value of the CLIPBOARD selection.

If it does so, it is broken.  The X protocol provides plenty of mechanism for
eliminating almost all forms of polling; the selection mechanism which
xclipboard uses is one such example.