+/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event or error from the server.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @return The next event from the server.
+ *
+ * Returns the next event or error from the server, or returns null in
+ * the event of an I/O error. Blocks until either an event or error
+ * arrive, or an I/O error occurs.
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_wait_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Returns the next event or error from the server.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @param error: A pointer to an int to be filled in with the I/O
+ * error status of the operation.
+ * @return The next event from the server.
+ *
+ * Returns the next event or error from the server, if one is
+ * available, or returns @c NULL otherwise. If no event is available, that
+ * might be because an I/O error like connection close occurred while
+ * attempting to read the next event, in which case the connection is
+ * shut down when this function returns.
+ */
+xcb_generic_event_t *xcb_poll_for_event(xcb_connection_t *c);
+
+/**
+ * @brief Return the error for a request, or NULL if none can ever arrive.
+ * @param c: The connection to the X server.
+ * @param cookie: The request cookie.
+ * @return The error for the request, or NULL if none can ever arrive.
+ *
+ * The xcb_void_cookie_t cookie supplied to this function must have resulted
+ * from a call to xcb_[request_name]_checked(). This function will block
+ * until one of two conditions happens. If an error is received, it will be
+ * returned. If a reply to a subsequent request has already arrived, no error
+ * can arrive for this request, so this function will return NULL.
+ *
+ * Note that this function will perform a sync if needed to ensure that the
+ * sequence number will advance beyond that provided in cookie; this is a
+ * convenience to avoid races in determining whether the sync is needed.
+ */
+xcb_generic_error_t *xcb_request_check(xcb_connection_t *c, xcb_void_cookie_t cookie);