On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 04:49:17PM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > The use-case for clients with different endianess is ''very'' niche. > It was common in the 1980s when X was originally developed but at this > point a vanishingly small number of users run clients and X servers on > different machines, I doubt this part is true. Have you measured it? Anyway I use this all the time (though not with different endianness). > * this only affects use-cases where the server runs on a little endian > host and the client on a Big Endian host (or vice versa). I guess this affects something like x86 server running a client on s390x (which is very rare indeed). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue