On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:17 -0400, David Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:10 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > For the perversely curious: X's session management protocol defines a > > concept of a client ID, generated by the session leader and passed to > > new clients. Unfortunately, the spec defines the client ID in such a > > way that you have to emit the IP address of the server in the ID, and > > the way that gets implemented (hold your nose) is by calling > > gethostname() followed by gethostbyname(). So if your resolver isn't > > reachable (because the route is down, or because it changed and > > gnome-session has the old one cached), or if your hostname isn't a > > resolvable DNS name, you lose. > > > > Thankfully the client ID is an opaque string prefixed by a version > > number, so you can just bump the version number and use UUIDs. > > By "you" do you mean you? And does this mean you have done this in > latest X or that it is left as an exercise for the reader? I mean Dan did a patch for it that I need to test and commit. Should be in koji shortly, and rawhide tomorrow. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
