Chapter 1. Purposes and Goals

The X Transport Interface is intended to combine all system and transport specific code into a single place in the source tree. This API should be used by all libraries, clients and servers of the X Window System. Use of this API should allow the addition of new types of transports and support for new platforms without making any changes to the source except in the X Transport Interface code.

This interface should solve the problem of multiple #ifdef TRANSPORT and #ifdef PLATFORM statements scattered throughout the source tree.

This interface should provide enough functionality to support all types of protocols, including connection oriented protocols such as X11 and FS, and connection-less oriented protocols such as XDMCP.