Question regarding xwayland and ptrace

moenyan at cock.li moenyan at cock.li
Thu Jul 18 16:19:41 UTC 2024


On 2024-07-18 09:31, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 11:05 PM <moenyan at cock.li> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've been writing apparmor profiles for things recently, and I
>> happened
>> to notice that xwayland tries to ptrace other processes, such as the
>> 
>> compositor.. So, I'd like to ask: Is this normal, expected behavior?
>> Why
>> does it do that?
> 
> I'm not aware of that, is this with an unpatched version of Xwayland
> from upstream?
> 
> Cheers
> .o/
Thanks for the reply!

I'm using the package provided by arch. Looking at the PKGBUILD, it 
doesn't look like any patches are applied. The version is 24.1.1-1.


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