On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:04:27 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 2017-11-03 10:37, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > >> Summary of (individual) proposals follows. > >> > >> >- modify WAYLAND_DISPLAY to support absolute paths which overrides > >> > any search paths > >> > >> - introduce new WAYLAND_SOCKET > >> - modify WAYLAND_DISPLAY to reject '/' > > > >What would be the functional difference to WAYLAND_DISPLAY accepting > >absolute paths? Why would a different environment variable make a > >difference? > > Well because you cannot establish for certain that people have or have not > already used WAYLAND_DISPLAY=/newsock in the concatenation sense. > > (Depending on who you ask and how much weight they give to it, > breaking application interfaces is out of the question. That's all.) Ah, that, ok. I thought this was about the security stuff you referred to. But given the same rationale, we cannot forbid / in WAYLAND_DISPLAY either. Thanks, pq
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