[PATCH] os: Treat ssh as a non-local client

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 20:09 +0100, walter harms wrote:

> unfortunately, that means if my client is called
> "the_exceptional_secure_shell" it would break, right ?

"Break" in the sense of "be exactly as broken as it already is", sure.

> there i would ask, could that be made on option ?
> (default value e.g. ssh) other programms may benefit
> also.

What I'd really prefer is that forwarding proxies (including ssh)
implement support for the extended connection handshake, which allows
the client to ask to be treated as non-local:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=e2c7d70e5ddb8b17676a13ceebfbb87d14d63243

But since ssh is to a first-order approximation the only forwarding X
proxy anybody uses, we might as well special case it here too.

- ajax