Re: Some doubts in Xlib

Puneet Goel wrote:

>1) While debugging I am seeing that dpy structure pointer is being
>passed by some calls. dpy intern contains 'buffer', 'bufptr' etc.
>While digging through the location pointed by 'buffer' and 'bufptr'
>the data is shown as "\003\005" or "\002" etc.
>
>What is the meaning of these values ? I was expecting buffer or bufptr
>to be some real data buffers being passed to Xserver but found
>something else. Any hints what are these ?
>  
>

What makes you believe that the buffer does not represent the data being 
passed to Xserver?  What were you expecting to see?  Many of the packets 
sent to the server are mouse position updates, which are not going to be 
neatly human-readable.

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