[Lcdproc] Increasing the server's receive buffer

[joris at robijn.net]

Hi Anders

> I'm just concerned with how the TCP layer is 
> used by the LCDd server and lcdproc client. 

I think your'e right the handling of incoming data could be done better
on this point. It's simply choking  in a big lump of data that it cannot
handle. Someone wrote about a modification with a second buffer, I think
he's right. It's been a long while since I had a look at that code, I
vaguely remember what it looks like.

> Is there a formal writeup of the LCDd protocol somewhere?

Check the online manual on the documentation page. It's generated from
docbook documentation.

> There's no telling what the server does after the first two steps. Will it 
> display the partially defined screen? A way to turn this into an atomic unit 
> would be to wrap it in "start" "stop" statements.

The protocol was meant to be used by very simple clients as well. If
they do no return checking things should work (a bit).
It was never meant to be atomic. It's just a (too) simple implementation
of handling incoming data.

Regards,
Joris