Re: [9fans] [plan9port] graphics

[Roman Shaposhnick <rvs@sun.com>]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:46:29AM -0700, Russ Cox wrote:
> Over the weekend I shuffled things around.  Instead of
> linking X code into every program, there is now a single
> program, called devdraw, that contains X interface code.
> Graphical programs now fork and exec a devdraw and then
> speak a simple protocol to its standard input and standard
> output to read from the keyboard and mouse and draw on the
> screen.  Devdraw is not a threaded program.  It runs on the
> standard system stack and uses select(2) to manage its two
> inputs.  It uses only a single connection to the X server.
> My hope is that doing things the Official Unix Way inside
> devdraw will eliminate the problems people have reported.

  This sounds interesting enough, but what's the "language"
  an application is supposed to talk to devdraw binary in ?
  Is it just the draw(3) ?

Thanks,
Roman.