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From: mlandau@diamond.bbn.com.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: 128k request limit
Message-ID: <5278@diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: Sat, 11-Apr-87 14:08:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 11 14:08:16 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Apr-87 02:13:57 EST
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Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: "Change your local X server" is not a solution

In comp.windows.x (<69500005@hplabsc.UUCP>), garfinke@hplabsc.UUCP (Dan 
Garfinkel) writes:
>>	Currently, the X 10 server will close a connection to a client if
>>the client sends a request with more than 128 kilobytes of data.  
>>...Will this restriction be removed in X 11?
>
>Why wait for X11?  Just go to the Read_segment routine in main.c and
>change it. 

I've heard this answer ("just go in and change it") a lot where restrictions
in the current version of X are concerned.  Please note that it is *not* a
solution.  Your local copies of X may then allow whatever feature you need,
but how do you propose that other people with unmodified X servers (and maybe
without X sources at all, if they have a vendor-supplied X) run applications
that depend on these hacks?  (Extensible window servers?  Hmmm....)
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 Matt Landau				    mlandau@diamond.bbn.com