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From: alan@APPLE.COM (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: RE: GrabServer/UngrabServer nesting?!?
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Date: 14 Apr 89 17:40:07 GMT
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The problem is that the client is calling several levels of internal
routine -- some of which might be supplied by outside parties -- any of
which might be grabbing the server and then ungrabbing it.  This (In My
[sometimes] Humble Opinion) is a pretty strong argument for a (slight)
change to the protocol to permit nesting of server grabs.

Implementation of the changes necessary to do this nesting is about
three or four lines added to dix/dispatch.c in the ProcGrabServer and
ProcUngrabServer routines, I think.

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