On Mar 26, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 03/26/12 06:01 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 03/26/12 04:13 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>> These need to die. This removes 30K lines of code from xorg-server. It
>>> must be good!
>>>
>>> Most functionality of these servers can be provide by Xorg with either the
>>> nested or dummy video driver. If someone really misses functionality, we
>>> should fix that deficiency in hw/xfree86, xf86-video-dummy, or
>>> xf86-video-nested. Also, there's nothing stopping anyone from using older
>>> server versions if they still need these DDXs.
>>
>> The giant blocker from my point of view is that by just deleting them, you've
>> made it impossible for non-root users to run them, since Xorg only reads
>> config
>> files from system directories when run as a root user.
>
> Oh, and there's probably at least two other alternative solutions to this too:
>
> a) install a non-setuid-root copy of Xorg and have Xnest/Xephyr/Xvfb run that
This is the option I prefer, although I'd rather have ${bindir}/Xorg and
${bindir}/Xorg.suid to make it obvious which is which (and which is "the
future").
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