[PATCH 0/3] xserver: Client ID tracking
Pat Kane
pekane52 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 05:56:44 PDT 2010
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Rami Ylimäki <rami.ylimaki at vincit.fi> wrote:
...
> You are right in that we mainly care about local clients, because in
> practice on our system all clients will be local. But I think that having a
> good way to identify local clients is still very important even though we
> wouldn't be able to reliably identify remote clients. We don't mind if
> information about clients can't be trusted in a rogue environment, because
> the framework would be used mainly to improve the overall system
quality and
> as an development aid, not as a secure client framework for finding out
> which clients are trusted.
>
> -- Rami
I agree, I make similar, but much less abstract, changes to help debug problems
with local non-trusted clients in a trusted X system.
Your patches are interesting and I plan to review/test them; it might take a few
weeks for me to have the time to do that however. What is you time-frame
for getting these changes merged?
Pat
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