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X Might Be Ready For IPV6

Posted by timothy on from the bajillions-and-bajillions dept.

makapuf writes "According to linuxtoday, the X Consortium has published enhancement proposals to let X and IPV6 interoperate. This is surely a relief for the masses here that longed for X support for IPV6. Or the contrary? The proposal can be found here."

6 of 217 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Mother Of All FPs! :) by BeNJ-GoS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe not FP...
    Well... next one. :)

  2. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Once they add IPv6 support, maybe then they will fix the flaw in xfs that causes X to segfault on my computer all the time.

    Stack backtrace:
    memcpy (dstpp=0xbfffe1a8, srcpp=0x84a0c08, len=1024) at ../sysdeps/generic/memcpy.c:55
    FTGetEnglishName () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
    FreeTypeAddPropertie s () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
    FreeTypeLoadXFont () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
    FreeTypeOpenScalable () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
    FontFileOpenFont () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1
    do_open_font ()
    OpenFont ()
    ProcOpenBitmapFont ()
    Dispatch ()
    main ()

    Hint: the srcpp buffer contains a name of a font and the buffer allocation is shorter than 1024 bytes-- thus causing the segfault.

  3. Re:Prediction by BJH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of those posts recommending the replacement of X, approximately one-half will mention the Windowing System Formerly Known as Berlin, one-quarter will babble aimlessly about the Linux framebuffer, and the remainder will offer no alternative, but merely observe that network transparency is unnecessary, giving their lack of need for this feature as the reason (e.g. "ive never neieded 2 use xwindows over the network, y would any1 ellse!!??").

  4. Re:And I was just thinking by Daniel+Phillips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just becuase some PC technician at "The Wiz" can't see the sense in ipv6 doesn't mean Nortel networks and Lucent don't have a use for it.

    That's likely where IPv6 will be relegated, and even there, 128 bits is arguably a big, fat waste.

    What it will not become is an end-to-end addressing scheme as originally designed, it's just not the best solution or even close to it.

    --
    Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
  5. Re:Full Matrix Reloaded Synopsis... by Ponty · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That sounds worse than the first one.

  6. Re:IPV6...pah! by bazmonkey · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    If that's all you need, go play with DirectFB. It's even 3D accelerated if set up correctly, and has GNOME working.