local/remote how to detect?
Pat Kane
pekane52 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 22:12:07 PDT 2007
> One minor question: how can an extension be a reliable way to detect
> local/remote connection? If the extension is missing the 'reliable' is gone!
>
> But I know that the XShm is very old, and should be present on all modern
> machines.
>
> Bert
That question gets even more troublesome when you worry about
"trust" in addition to "reliable". The X server that I am working on
ranks "trust" above "reliable" so the XShm is not supported.
Why? Not enuf brain cells to figure out how to secure a shared memory system...
Pat
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