From: Ross Burton <Ross.Burton@arm.com>
To: "rs@ti.com" <rs@ti.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>,
"mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com"
<mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>,
"openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [oe-core][PATCH] libx11: create tmpfile dir for x11 domain socket
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 10:38:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE558C16-AD4F-401B-9734-E57067101F56@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251002003034.344992-1-rs@ti.com>
On 2 Oct 2025, at 01:30, rs@ti.com wrote:
>
> From: Randolph Sapp <rs@ti.com>
>
> Register a volatile directory entry for the x11 domain socket when not
> using systemd. This will make sure the directory is always created with
> the correct permissions. Systemd already provides their own tmpfile.d
> entry for the same behavior.
>
> Currently some x11 related applications will create this directory if it
> doesn't already exist, but this is not true for everything. In addition,
> if the application in question isn't started as root, it's possible this
> directory can be owned by a non-root user. This isn't an issue by
> itself, but it can potentially lead to problems in a multi-user
> environment.
Feel like this should be in xserver (as the xserver is the one creating the sockets), not libx11.
Ross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-06 10:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-02 0:30 [oe-core][PATCH] libx11: create tmpfile dir for x11 domain socket rs
2025-10-06 10:38 ` Ross Burton [this message]
2025-10-06 17:21 ` Randolph Sapp
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