[PATCH 2/2] Xinit: close stdin to avoid leak of file descriptior to the Xorg session.

Ray Strode halfline at gmail.com
Tue Jul 26 14:03:02 PDT 2011


Hi,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> What I am trying to say here basically: if you are planning to invoke
> setsid() or detach from the controlling tty otherwise in the normal X
> servers, then you'll break existing code. And I'd like to ask you not to
> do that...
...
> But then again, I didn't really follow the discussion and maybe you are
> discussing something compltely different.
Yea, we're talking about something different.  xinit does two things
1) start the server 2) start an initial client

You're worried about 1, we're talking about 2.

--Ray


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