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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  server?
Message-ID: <9011250536.AA19667@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 25 Nov 90 05:36:04 GMT
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> Is that true that for every client that connects to a X server, a
> child server process will be created?  So every client has its copy
> of server?

Definitely not in general.  No server I am familiar with works this
way, and I have never heard of one that does.

Given the way the server is required to work, it would be difficult to
implement.  In particular, clients are permitted to manipulate objects
(windows, pixmaps, etc) created by other clients; indeed, window
managers more or less *require* such capabilities, meaning that a
server that forks a child for each client would probably have some
major difficulty keeping the various processes in sync.  Not that it's
impossible, just that it's difficult enough that I would be surprised
to find anyone bothering.

					der Mouse

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