TCP/IP sockets use file descriptors is that, when the sockets interface was first designed and implemented (in BSD Unix, in 1983), its designers felt that a network connection was analogous to a file - you can read, write, and close both, and that it would fit well with the Unix idea of "everything is a file".

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12112055/3161761

Even to master Xlib, you have to spent months or years! It's so intricate that almost every app that has graphical content to display uses a toolkit instead.

Using a plain socket means speaking the X11 protocol directly, which means you would end up recreating Xlib (no, you wouldn't finish!)

Отредактировано Лис (2017-10-09 15:01:26)