On 10/06/2012 03:46 AM, Keith Packard wrote: > > I did a bunch of experiments with fd passing in Linux to see how it > might work in X. > > Here's the results: > > http://keithp.com/blogs/fd-passing/ > > The bottom line is that I think it'll be easy to get fds from > applications to the X server, and a bit harder to get fds from the X > server back to applications. Now might be a good time to revive this patch which has been submitted before by Timo Juhani Lindfors (CCed): https://www.xpra.org/trac/attachment/ticket/172/X11-unix-domain-socket.patch
It would be very useful for us to avoid having to find a free display TCP port to use with the Vfb X11 server (Xdummy), we could just allocate a private socket as needed. I suspect that the concerns will be security related. I don't mind coding and testing to ensure this new display mode cannot be abused, but at this point I am not entirely sure that any checks are actually needed. Cheers Antoine PS: sorry for hijacking thread - seems somewhat related and I had been meant to post this question for ages. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
