Hi all,
I've been using chrooted Debian (and other distros) for years, but there's one
thing that baffled me many times. While many users seek help trying to make
chrooted X programs work (mostly due to missing DISPLAY=... or xauth problems),
I cannot find a reason why this works for me when it clearly shouldn't. I'm
running XOrg outside the chroot, which listens only on a socket
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 and no TCP port, as usual. When preparing the chroot, I don't
bind /tmp to new root - I mount a new tmpfs, so chrooted /tmp is empty
(checked). Therefore, the X clients should have no way of connecting the
server, yet they work without any problems. I have studied source codes of Xlib
and XCB and found only the expected behavior of trying
/tmp/.X11-unix/X{display} and tcp port 6000 + {display} (which is closed). Any
ideas how this works or where I should continue my search?
Thanks,
Pavel
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