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

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:25:17 +0200,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Hi All,

Hello,

> 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.

On Debian we have the "-nolisten tcp" option set in the system-wide
xserverrc file since 2006 at least.

But isn't your patch preventing the user or local admin to explicitly
ask to listen on tcp in xserverrc or .xserverrc ?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville