>Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:11:47 +1000
>From: Peter Hutterer <[email protected]>
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>On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:36:17PM -0400, Paul Dufresne wrote:
>> For years I have heard of how we must rethink what is the server and
>> what are the clients when coming to X. ...
>
>...Hardware is not software, and this problem is little more than
>the English language using the same word for two different things.
>You don't even have to rethink what servers and clients are. ...
I respecfully, partially, disagree with the last. For me, grasping
the difference between X servers and X clients required fixing a
broken intuition that servers were "there" and clients were "here".
(A slight generalization of your hardware theory.) In the X case, the
server is closer to the user than the client, offering the resources
the user uses to interact with the machine to other programs to share.
I would call what I had to do, "rethinking".
The other "rethinking" that may be necessary for some is the error
that a program is either a client or a server. I've used -- and
written -- many programs that act both as clients and servers,
depending on their relationship with other servers and clients.
However, I don't think I ever did think -- or could ever come to think
-- of the X server as a client to the programs that connect to it. It
was my early intuition that was wrong, not the definitions that the X
Window System used.
- Patrick
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