proto, server: Add internal server error message. (v2)
Many languages such as C++ or Rust have an unwinding error-reporting mechanism. Code in these languages can (and must!) wrap request handling callbacks in unwind guards to avoid undefined behaviour. As a consequence such code will detect internal server errors, but have no way to communicate such failures to the client. This adds a WL_DISPLAY_ERROR_IMPLEMENTATION error to wl_display so that such code can notify (and disconnect) clients which hit internal bugs. While servers can currently abuse other wl_display errors for the same effect, adding an explicit error code allows clients to tell the difference between errors which are their fault and errors which are the server's fault. This is particularly interesting for automated bug reporting. v2: Rename error from "internal" to "implementation", in sympathy with X11's BadImplementation error. Add more justification in the commit message. Signed-off-by: Christopher James Halse Rogers <christopher.halse.rogers@canonical.com> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
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