On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Alan Hourihane wrote:

> > I also cannot find any information mention about
> > "MAXCLIENTS" change to 256 in v4.2 from the release
> > note or bug fixes, do you have a link on those
> > information?
> 
> Look in the xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/CHANGELOG file.
> 
> The MAXCLIENTS change to 256 was done before 4.0 was released.
> 
> You can increase the MAXCLIENTS in xc/programs/Xserver/include/misc.h
> and rebuild.

Comments in xc/programs/Xserver/include/resource.h make me think that
it has to be a power of 2, and can't exceed 512.
I seem to remember a previous discussion suggesting that 9 bits is the 
most we can use for the client id, since the others are all used.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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