Re: Getting rid of windows

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From: Ralph R. Swick
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1987 18:29

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>>[The asynchronous nature of client-server communications] will probably
>>still catch the unwary, however.

>An application that doesn't call XSync() when it should has a bug, and
>turning off buffering during debugging allows this bug to go undetected.

Exactly my point.  Synchronous mode _will_ help you by not requiring extra
XSync() calls after every request when you are trying to figure out on which
argument of which call you made an error.

-Ralph R. Swick
 DEC/MIT Project Athena

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