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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver/pull/56
Here is the x11libre dev not understanding what the
^operand does in C. Would you trust running this person's code as a display server?Sure. No one expects anyone to know everything from the start, and people improve with time. But this was metux's understanding of C when he forked off xorg thinking he could do better than freedesktop.
He might have confused it with shell script