[PATCH] Add a command line argument for disabling indirect GLX.

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Mon Apr 21 20:51:57 PDT 2014


Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> writes:

> The attack surface for indirect GLX is huge, and it's of no use to
> most people (if you get an indirect GL context, you're better served
> by a immediate X error than actually trying to use an indirect GL
> context and finding out that it doesn't support doing anything you
> want, slowly).  This flag gives you a chance to disable indirect GLX
> in environments where you just don't need it.
>
> I put in both the '+' and '-' arguments right now, so that it's easy
> to patch the value to change the default policy.

Not proud enough of this to add a Signed-off-by?

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keith.packard at intel.com
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