On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:03:22 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 03:46:17PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > On 02/05/2018 01:20 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:  
> > >    Hi,
> > >   
> 
> Hmm.  I allways assumed the wayland client allocates the buffers, not
> the server.  Is that wrong?

Hi Gerd,

a fly-by comment here:

The standard operation mode on Wayland indeed is that the client
allocates any pixel buffers. It is not the whole story though.

Server allocated buffers passed to a client also exist:
- core protocol uses this to pass keymaps to clients
- people are not forbidden from writing Wayland extensions that do this
  for whatever reason

The latter server-allocated case could probably be overlooked, but the
keymap case not really. Furthermore, copy&paste and drag&drop protocol
pass pipe file descriptors via Wayland to establish client-to-client
pipes.


Thanks,
pq