[PATCH] randr: stop clients from deleting immutable output properties
Daniel Stone
daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Aug 10 07:28:37 PDT 2011
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:53:03PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 03:48:30PM +0200, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> > This was not done for a few reasons:
> > 1) it clearly splits between clientside and server internal usage. The
> > comment that i added to RRDeleteOutputProperty in the very first version
> > of the patch underlined that this was only for server internal use due
> > to immutable (this was the code tested on the N9, but was never
> > committed).
> > 2) ValidAtom is only ever called in the client side functions, while
> > the check for immutable is once in general and once in client side,
> > putting the balance client side, so i picked client side.
> > 3) it is much more invasive.
>
> Not that it really matters either way, i just felt that the other had a
> higher probability of being accepted as is, as any of the above three
> reasons could've been cited for going for the smaller patch.
*shrug*, I'm not the RandR maintainer, but it just seemed a bit daft to
inline an entire function just to add one check in the middle.
Cheers,
Daniel
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