X11 Library Sees Lots Of Fixes With libX11 1.7 Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X11 Library Sees Lots Of Fixes With libX11 1.7 Release

It's been seven years since the release of libX11 1.6.0 for this central X11 library while on Friday was replaced by the libX11 1.7 series. The release is primarily made up of fixes but leading to the version bump is a new API that allows for applications to recover from I/O error conditions rather than being forced to exit...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=libX11-1.7.0-Released

[Ironmask]

They should rewrite it in Rust.

[brad0]

They should rewrite it in Rust.

That would just result in two separately maintained implementations.

[Ironmask]

That would just result in two separately maintained implementations.

Sounds good to me! A small price to pay for the Superior Rust Future.

[Raka555]

Sounds good to me! A small price to pay for the Superior Rust Future.

Do you have a github link to your project where you are doing the rewrite ?

[Lycanthropist]

Is there something similar to XSetIOErrorExitHandler in xcb?

[Ironmask]

Do you have a github link to your project where you are doing the rewrite ?

No because Git/GitHub isn't written in Rust.

[marios]

No because Git/GitHub isn't written in Rust.

Can you give me a link to you git repo (the server of which is written in Rust), with your git implementation (in Rust of course) and the afore-mentioned project?

[kpedersen]

I have a sneaky suspicion that these forums are not hosted on a Rust written web server. Michael, tell us it isn't so! Or we all need to leave

[treba]

The XSetIOErrorExitHandler will be used in Gnome to handle Xwayland crashes gracefully. That should help with stability, as apparently quite a few crashes of the Wayland session are in Xorg, not the compositor.