[PATCH] Add -iglx & +iglx to Xserver.man

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Nov 25 19:26:14 PST 2014


Covers the current state after commits 99f0365b1fbdfd9238b9f,
d0da0e9c3bb8fe0cd4879, & e3aa13b8d63ea2fba6eb4 were all applied.

Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
---
 man/Xserver.man |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/Xserver.man b/man/Xserver.man
index c03830c..69ff626 100644
--- a/man/Xserver.man
+++ b/man/Xserver.man
@@ -181,6 +181,16 @@ prints a usage message.
 .B \-I
 causes all remaining command line arguments to be ignored.
 .TP 8
+.B \-iglx
+Prohibit creating indirect GLX contexts.  Indirect GLX is of limited use,
+since it only supports up to OpenGL 1.4; it's slower than direct contexts;
+and it opens a large attack surface for protocol parsing errors.
+This is the default unless +iglx is specified, though it may not be honored
+by GLX implementations other than the one provided with the X server.
+.TP 8
+.B +iglx
+Allow creating indirect GLX contexts.
+.TP 8
 .B \-maxbigreqsize \fIsize\fP
 sets the maximum big request to
 .I size
-- 
1.7.9.2



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