Hi, On 10 July 2012 12:43, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 July 2012 03:02, Daniel Stone <[email protected]> wrote: >> If failing to disable a protocol specified by -nolisten failed, we'd >> throw a FatalError and bomb startup entirely. From poking at xtrans, it >> looks like the only way we can get a failure here is because we've >> specified a protocol name which doesn't exist, which probably doesn't >> constitute a security risk. > > It kind of is if the protocol you specified has a typo in it.
A fatal error, though? >> And it makes it possible to start gdm even though you've built with >> --disable-tcp-transport. > > Wouldn't it be better if disabling tcp wotked even in this case? TCP is pretty effectively disabled if the server does not even know TCP exists, because the support was never compiled in. Enabling it, on the other hand, might prove more of a challenge. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
