TODO: Add a few lines about removing commit request

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Kristian Høgsberg 2010-08-02 12:45:38 -04:00
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@ -95,7 +95,21 @@ Core wayland protocol
- xml based description instead?
- actually make batch/commit batch up commands
- Figure out if we need the batch/commit scheme and what to do
instead. Since dropping the "copy" request, we have a race between
copy from back to front and reporting damage. "copy" did this
atomically, but copy is a rendering operation (wayland doesn't do
rendering) and requires synchronization between server and client
before client can reuse backbuffer.
The race condition happens when a client copies new content into
its window and then, before the client reports the damage, the
compositor then does a partial repaint (triggered by another
client) that only pulls in part of the repainted area. It's only a
one-frame glitch, as the client will submit the damage and the
compositor will repaint the damaged area next frame. And ideally
clients should do all rendering as early in the frame as possible
to avoid this race.
- auth; We need to generate a random socket name and advertise that
on dbus along with a connection cookie. Something like a method