Sujet : Re: Can 'graphics' be a file descriptor?
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 03. Jan 2025, 01:07:48
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:08:57 -0600, BGB wrote:
POSIX sockets also share the same numbering space, and some of the same
calls (Windows sockets do not, and many functions gain an WSA prefix and
changes to capitalization and similar).
That’s a limitation of Windows. For example, POSIX systems allow select/
poll on any file descriptor, Windows does not.
What happens then, does one represent a window as a BMP file or
something, which one writes to to update the contents?...
The old X11 protocol used a socket as its primary communication channel.
To this was soon added a shared-memory extension, for more rapid
information transfer when both client and server were on the same machine.
Wayland does something similar.
Can 'graphics' be a file descriptor?
Re: Can 'graphics' be a file descriptor?
