On Friday 2017-11-03 10:37, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > >> Summary of (individual) proposals follows. >> >> >- modify WAYLAND_DISPLAY to support absolute paths which overrides >> > any search paths >> >> - introduce new WAYLAND_SOCKET >> - modify WAYLAND_DISPLAY to reject '/' > >What would be the functional difference to WAYLAND_DISPLAY accepting >absolute paths? Why would a different environment variable make a >difference?
Well because you cannot establish for certain that people have or have not already used WAYLAND_DISPLAY=/newsock in the concatenation sense. (Depending on who you ask and how much weight they give to it, breaking application interfaces is out of the question. That's all.) _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
