[PATCH xinit 0/1] startx: Pass "-nolisten tcp" by default

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 09/12/2014 11:12 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:25:17 +0200
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> After doing the 1.3.4 release yesterday, I've started working on updating the
>> Fedora packages to 1.3.4. While looking at our open bug list against xinit,
>> I found one bug which is not yet resolved in 1.3.4 .
>>
>> This patch fixes this, I realize that this is a behavior change, and as such
>> may be a bit controversial, but I really believe that in this day and age
>> "-nolisten tcp" by default is the right thing to do.
> 
> You're probably right.  However instead of fixing this in each and
> every bit of code that starts and X server, wouldn't it make more
> sense to simply change the default in the X server itself and add the
> -listen option there to override things?

I was thinking the same thing while working on this patch, the problem
is that most bits of code starting the xserver have already been patched
to start it with "-nolisten tcp", and have their own config file options /
cmdline options to override this.

Changing the server would break all this, where as just changing startx
keeps all of the existing other xserver "starters" working.

Regards,

Hans