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Subject: Re: Why does X not use SO_KEEPALIVE?
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Date: 24 May 89 20:06:03 GMT
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    This implies that there needs to
    be an option to the X stream-creation routine to specify this.

At present, there appears to be enough contention about use of keepalives
that I would prefer to "ignore" them at the Xlib level entirely.  Clients
that wish to (ab)use SO_KEEPALIVE and other OS "features" can use the
XConnectionNumber() directly.