[PATCH app/xauth 2/2] Sort entries from most specific to most generic.

[Walter Harms]

> Michal Srb <msrb at suse.com> hat am 7. Juni 2018 um 16:01 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> On čtvrtek 7. června 2018 14:59:44 CEST Walter Harms wrote:
> > I was thinking about a more permanent solution and sofar i see the correct
> > way would to add the two functions to libXau since i do not see that other
> > applications would be more clever that xauth.
> 
> That would be nice, sadly libXau does not provide any functions to manipulate 
> the list of xauth records. Just functions for writing and reading of a single 
> record, locking and matching.
> 
> One option would be to change the semantics of XauGetBestAuthByAddr to return 
> the most precise match first, instead of returning the first match of any 
> kind. But I don't think changing that behavior is good idea.
> 
> Alternatively we can just take the patch #1, so that xauth does overwrite 
> records with other random records. I believe that is correct fix. And we can 
> ignore this patch #2 that does the sorting. I could probably workaround my 
> issue by invoking xauth differently. (I could create 1-item list first 
> containing the new record and then merge the original list into it, so the new
> 
> record will end up on top.)
> 
> Michal Srb


I am waiting if someone will complain, if nothing happens until fr. i will see
to add your patch and will mail you for testing.

re,
 wh