[PATCH xserver] Search for DRI drivers at LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH environment variable.
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Tue Apr 12 18:08:02 UTC 2016
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 19:59:14 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> * The Mesa driver uses this environment variable to override the
> default compiled search path for DRI drivers.
>
> * This is useful for testing purposes when the user needs to
> override the system default one at runtime.
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clopez at igalia.com>
> ---
> glx/glxdricommon.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
NAK. The server doesn't trust the environment today, and there are
still cases where we are setuid, so I don't think we should go down this
road. Or if we do, at least make it if (geteuid() != 0).
Not to mention repurposing somebody else's env var feels wrong...
Cheers,
Julien
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