Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> writes:

> Running “xauth generate $DISPLAY . timeout 99999999” crashes the
> xserver.  This patch checks the maximum value of the timeout and bails
> if requested time is too large.
>
> This patch was authored and proposed to the mailing list in 2010 by
> Arvind Umrao.  There was some discussion but no resolution, and the
> patch was not picked up.  We have carried the patch in Ubuntu since Jun
> 2010 as it was confirmed to fix the reported issue.

Arvind tested this patch and found some cases that didn't work. It's too
twisty for me to figure out what's going on at this point. If someone
wants to unwind that old discussion and figure out how to make this
work, that'd be awesome.

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