On Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 at 11:17, Alyssa Ross <h...@alyssa.is> wrote:
> A further thought I've just had -- the pid lookup is generally done > through libwayland-server's wl_client_get_credentials(), right? So if > libwayland-server could be taught about the proxy, and the proxy could > communicate the pid/uid/gid to libwayland-server somehow, that could > make this possible after all, right? I'm not sure a proxy is a good idea, because proxying Wayland protocols isn't straightforward and introduces latency. That said, allowing sandboxes to feed back security context metadata to the compositor is something I believe would be useful in many scenarios. Maybe have a look at [1]? [1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/68 _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
