[PULL] revert arm backtrace fix, introduce client id tracking

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Nov 10 16:25:33 PST 2010


On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:22:37 -0600, Pat Kane <pekane52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> > Seems like just sticking new fields in the client and having the OS
> > initialize them when the client connects would make most of this code
> > unnecessary.
> 
> Yeah, I have a local hack that uses the 3 pad bytes in xConnClientPrefix
> to pass client ID (PID) to the X server.

The code which computes uid/gid/pid from the connection seems
like the right idea, I'd just rather see that all done neatly in the os
layer without resorting to devPrivates in the client structure.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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