Rendering when dropped master

[Martin Peres]

On 20/12/2013 07:57, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> So this is a potential issue that needs to be brought up sooner or later:
>
> Let's say a client is authenticated by the current master.
> Then the master drops, and we have a new master (fast user switching for
> example).
>
> What's the status of the clients authenticated by old masters?
> Should they be allowed to render and use memory resources or shouldn't they?
>
> A typical example where this could pose a problem is where user 1 opens
> a drm connection, authenticates itself and then drops master.
> Then user 2 starts an X server and exposes all DRI contents to user 1?
>
> /Thomas
I wouldn't worry about that since all clients should use render nodes 
instead.
If you worry about this, help making the switch to them happen.

Martin/mupuf