From: Dhruva Krishnamurthy <dhruva.krishnamurthy@gmail.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in x-server-version (w32)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:04:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68c73b1a0410290134189ea04@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4181ED95.2000908@swipnet.se>
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:13:25 +0200, Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > x-server-version is supposed to return the version numbers
> > of the X protocol, plus a version number for the X server.
> > I copied that info from the doc string in xfns.c to that
> > in w32fns.c. But I see the code doesn't do the right job.
> > It seems to return the version numbers of Windows rather than
> > that of the X protocol.
> >
> > Could someone fix that code?
>
> FWIW, the Mac OSX code for a carbon (non-X) build also returns the version of
> the OS. As there is no X server involved both for W32 and OSX, I don't know
> what a fix would be.
>
Under a CYGWIN environment, there could be an X server running
(XFree86 port) on Windoze box.
-dhruva
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-29 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-29 4:32 Bug in x-server-version (w32) Richard Stallman
2004-10-29 7:13 ` Jan D.
2004-10-29 8:34 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy [this message]
2004-10-29 9:19 ` Jan D.
2004-10-30 14:19 ` Richard Stallman
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