Re: [Xpert]Question about X protocol

[Jens Owen]

Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote:

	Hi!

	As I understand, when an X server deals with clients having
different byte order, it is the server who does LSB<->MSB conversion, not
the client.  Is there any documentation which lists the reasons of that
decision?

This architectural decision was made many years ago. I don't know if any documentation exists. However, from an architectural perspective it makes perfect sense. The XLib client side library tries to stay thin where possible and defer all heavy lifting to the server side of the implementation.

Why do you ask?

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