Hi dirdi,

You are right. Would you simply add a notice in the man page by forwarding to
the upstream bug URL? Or would you totally remove the option from the man page?
I am more tempted in doing the former. What do you think?

Regards,

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:29:09AM +0100, dirdi wrote:
> Package: i3lock-fancy
> Version: 0.0~git20160228.0.0fcb933-2
> Followup-For: Bug #934444
> 
> I suggest to at least patch the man page and document the actual behavior, 
> since not forking might have severe security implications: E.g. consider the 
> following shell script which is supposed to lock the screen and wipe all 
> identities from the SSH agent:
> 
> > #! /bin/sh
> > i3lock-fancy
> > ssh-add -d
> 
> Instead of wiping those identities instantly they will not be wiped
> before i3lock-fancy exits (i.e. screen being unlocked).

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