Josh Triplett authored Mar 16, 2008 and Jamey Sharp committed Oct 12, 2008

Libraries like Xlib, some XCB language bindings, and potentially others
have a common problem: they want to share the X connection with XCB. This
requires coordination of request sequence numbers.  Previously, XCB had an
Xlib-specific lock, and allowed Xlib to block XCB from making requests.
Now we've replaced that lock with a handoff mechanism, xcb_take_socket,
allowing external code to ask XCB for permission to take over the write
side of the socket and send raw data with xcb_writev.  The caller of
xcb_take_socket must supply a callback which XCB can call when it wants
the write side of the socket back to make a request.  This callback
synchronizes with the external socket owner, flushes any output queues if
appropriate, and then returns the sequence number of the last request sent
over the socket.

Commit by Josh Triplett and Jamey Sharp.
Handoff mechanism inspired by Keith Packard.