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

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Apr 22 10:16:32 PDT 2014


On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 17:13:41 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:

> 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.
> ---
>  glx/glxcmds.c    | 10 ++++++++++
>  include/opaque.h |  1 +
>  os/utils.c       |  8 ++++++++
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
> 
Acked-by: Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org>

Cheers,
Julien


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