On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:12:29PM -0800, John M. Zulauf wrote:
> > We cannot know what future contexts will be created, but we can know
> > the bounded set of all extensions available to the implementation. This
> > can be interpreted to mean that all loadable driver modules which may
> > ever be used during the current invocation of the X server must be known
> > to the server so that it can request this information from all of them
> > (mechanism TBD of course).
>
> I believe this is incorrect when one considers that not all context will
> necessarily be created on the same display or host. One certainly could not
> imagine querying the entire network for all possible adapters (and then what
> if a new host comes online?).
Both client and server must know about the extension, so it doesn't
matter how many $DISPLAYs are out there on the Internet - only what
extensions are implemented in the client libraries the application is
running against.
Jon Leech
SGI
