[Bug 30043] A way for channel handlers to request observer bypassing

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30043

Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |will.thompson at collabora.co.
                   |                            |uk
         Depends on|                            |40283

--- Comment #5 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2011-08-23 05:06:04 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> We need to come up with some better wording for this before undrafting it. It's
> not a security feature unless your platform is very specialized
> (SELinux/Bitfrost levels of strangeness)

This still stands.

> One possible way to make this flag easier to explain would be to make it imply
> BypassApproval and an elevated filter-matching "quality" in the dispatcher,
> which would extend its semantics to something more like "this handler is a
> control freak".

I still think this would be a better set of semantics - it would probably make
the desired implementation in Bug #40283 more obvious, too.

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