Removal of XFree86-Misc

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Wed Jul 16 09:14:15 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:11:35PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:55:51AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > In the absence of API to control Allow{Deactivate,Closedown}Grabs from
> > the client side, I suggest we should take those options out of the
> > config file entirely.  Input people, any opinions?
> 
> Why? They're useful for debugging if nothing else, and if people want to
> enable them, we can just document their security implications in the
> manpage.

Or you could rename the switches to 

	OnlyAnIdiotTurnsOnDeactivateGrabs

as some other projects do... :-)

People couldn't claim ignorance then...

Cheers,
-- jra
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