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

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sat Sep 13 11:03:10 PDT 2014


Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> writes:

> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789
>
> there is even some patch... but all that from 2010 and no progress
> since.

The comments from upstream aren't very encouraging. Perhaps someone with
a clue about the security implications of using abstract sockets vs file
system sockets might chime in and explain why using abstract sockets is
safer than file system sockets...

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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