On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 11:04:27 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> said:
> > 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. I think we can just call it a day on this and say anyone doing that has fundamentally made a mistake. They likely dont set the env var at all in fact. Wayland is still young and I think can tolerate this kind of change at this point. > (Depending on who you ask and how much weight they give to it, > breaking application interfaces is out of the question. That's all.) > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
