Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?

From	Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>
Newsgroups	comp.security.ssh
Subject	Re: bizarre X11 forwarding behaviour?
Date	2012-02-08 13:14 +0100
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Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com> writes:
> I think the behaviour in the case of remote X clients is less likely
> to be intentional, and more probably it's an unintended side effect of
> having the detect-existing-Firefox-and-talk-to-it mechanism work
> through the X server. If the mechanism had been implemented via (say)
> Unix-domain sockets instead, then it would only happen between
> Firefoxes running on the same host, and ones on different hosts
> connecting to the same X server would just ignore each other.

Unix domain sockets might not play well with NFS-mounted home
directories, memory-backed /tmp etc.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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