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This is amusing because network byte order is big endian. The title should say ‘no longer allows big endian clients.’ Or does it deny all byte swapped clients
by mannyv 4y ago
This is amusing because network byte order is big endian.
The title should say ‘no longer allows big endian clients.’ Or does it deny all byte swapped clients ie if the server is big endian it disallows little endian clients?
- Gibbon1 4y agoOnly legacy protocols should be big endian at this point though.
- mjg59 4y agoThe latter.
- Karellen 4y agoAs it says in TFA: > So to this day whenever a client connects, the first byte it sends is a literal "l" or "B" to inform the server of the client's byte order. Where the byte order doesn't match the X server's byte order, the client is a "swapped client" in X server terminology So it's wherever the client doesn't match the server, which ever way around that is.